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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

financialaid.nku.edu

Financial Aid: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

525 ms

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About Website

Welcome to financialaid.nku.edu homepage info - get ready to check Financial Aid Nku best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about financialaid.nku.edu

Learn about the cost of attendance, the types of financial assistance available, how to apply for aid, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Financialaid.nku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

financialaid.nku.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

financialaid.nku.edu

176 ms

financialaid.html

1009 ms

gtm.js

89 ms

js

128 ms

css

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Financialaid.nku.edu, 75% (45 requests) were made to Inside.nku.edu and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Inside.nku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (25%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Financialaid.nku.edu main page is 5.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 42.1 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 40.4 kB
  • After compression 9.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.4 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 42.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 359.6 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Financial Aid Nku images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 459.1 kB

  • Original 625.8 kB
  • After minification 625.7 kB
  • After compression 166.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 459.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 465.1 kB

  • Original 532.3 kB
  • After minification 405.6 kB
  • After compression 67.2 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Financialaid.nku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 465.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (25%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Financial Aid Nku. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

financialaid.nku.edu

financialaid.nku.edu

176 ms

financialaid.html

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1009 ms

gtm.js

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89 ms

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128 ms

css

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199 ms

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213 ms

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220 ms

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173 ms

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250 ms

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250 ms

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250 ms

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30 ms

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Accessibility Review

financialaid.nku.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

financialaid.nku.edu best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

financialaid.nku.edu SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Financialaid.nku.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Financialaid.nku.edu main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

financialaid.nku.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Financial Aid Nku. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: