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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

home.nau.edu

Northern Arizona University | Online, Bachelor’s, Graduate | NAU

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

468 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Home.nau.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

home.nau.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,600 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.nau.edu

134 ms

nau.edu

145 ms

nau.edu

314 ms

gtm.js

119 ms

lwj6mlz.js

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Home.nau.edu, 50% (50 requests) were made to Nau.edu and 13% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Nau.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 207.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

8.6 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Home.nau.edu main page is 8.6 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 8.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 89.3 kB

  • Original 114.6 kB
  • After minification 105.0 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 89.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 115.4 kB

  • Original 8.1 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Home NAU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 370.6 kB
  • After minification 370.6 kB
  • After compression 368.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. Home.nau.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (77%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home NAU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

home.nau.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

home.nau.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

home.nau.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Home.nau.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 Home.nau.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

home.nau.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Home NAU. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: