Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

nkuonline.nku.edu

Online Degrees and Programs; Online Learning : Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

453 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nkuonline.nku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 2.6 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

nkuonline.nku.edu performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,850 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.239

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nkuonline.nku.edu

196 ms

online.html

326 ms

gtm.js

156 ms

js

293 ms

css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nkuonline.nku.edu, 50% (45 requests) were made to Nku.edu and 4% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (942 ms) relates to the external source Nku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 318.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Nkuonline.nku.edu main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 140.4 kB

  • Original 174.1 kB
  • After minification 165.0 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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 140.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 159.8 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Nku Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 68.1 kB
  • After minification 67.8 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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 16.4 kB

  • Original 81.4 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 64.9 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. Nkuonline.nku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.4 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (46%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nku Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nkuonline.nku.edu accessibility score

98

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

Best Practices

nkuonline.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

Serves images with low resolution

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

nkuonline.nku.edu SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Nkuonline.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 Nkuonline.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 Nku Online. 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: