Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

hicinfo.nku.edu

Institute for Health Innovation: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

902 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

919 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hicinfo.nku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 902 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hicinfo.nku.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hicinfo.nku.edu

902 ms

ihi.html

171 ms

gtm.js

103 ms

js

136 ms

css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hicinfo.nku.edu, 78% (52 requests) were made to Nku.edu and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Nku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 655.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

11.1 MB

After Optimization

10.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Hicinfo.nku.edu main page is 11.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

  • Original 65.5 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 13.6 kB, which is 21% 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 54.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 584.5 kB

  • Original 10.7 MB
  • After minification 10.2 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. Hicinfo Nku images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 117 B

  • Original 175.9 kB
  • After minification 175.8 kB
  • After compression 175.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 84.5 kB
  • After minification 84.5 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. Hicinfo.nku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (22%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hicinfo 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.

Accessibility Review

hicinfo.nku.edu accessibility score

91

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

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

hicinfo.nku.edu best practices score

75

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

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

hicinfo.nku.edu SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Hicinfo.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 Hicinfo.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hicinfo 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: