Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

nd.edu

University of Notre Dame

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

905 ms

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

nd.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Nd content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nd.edu

The University of Notre Dame is a private research university inspired by its Catholic character to be a powerful force for good in the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nd.edu performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nd.edu

11 ms

www.nd.edu

463 ms

site.css

16 ms

feature.css

11 ms

jquery.min.js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Nd.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Static.nd.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (463 ms) belongs to the original domain Nd.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Nd.edu main page is 2.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 814.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 104.1 kB

  • Original 128.5 kB
  • After minification 122.4 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 104.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 814.8 kB
  • After minification 809.2 kB

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. Nd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 221.5 kB

  • Original 332.0 kB
  • After minification 319.7 kB
  • After compression 110.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 221.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 699.6 kB

  • Original 773.8 kB
  • After minification 565.2 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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. Nd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 699.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (44%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nd.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nd.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

SEO Factors

nd.edu SEO score

92

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

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