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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

nccu.edu

Home | North Carolina Central University

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

544 ms

Page Rendered

897 ms

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For more than a century, NCCU has prepared students to transform communities. We made the commitment as the nation's first public liberal arts institution for African American students. We sustai...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nccu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nccu.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Nccu.edu, 6% (6 requests) were made to and 3% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (119 ms) belongs to the original domain Nccu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 205.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nccu.edu main page is 3.3 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 115.4 kB

  • Original 153.1 kB
  • After minification 135.7 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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 17.5 kB, which is 11% 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 115.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Nccu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 151.2 kB
  • After minification 150.9 kB
  • After compression 147.5 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 74.2 kB

  • Original 370.7 kB
  • After minification 297.5 kB
  • After compression 296.5 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. Nccu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 74.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (69%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nccu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

nccu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nccu.edu best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

nccu.edu SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Nccu.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 Nccu.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

nccu.edu

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