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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

northern.edu

Northern State University In Aberdeen, South Dakota

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

326 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northern.edu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.765

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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130 ms

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380 ms

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54 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Northern.edu, 10% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to 25livepub.collegenet.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (476 ms) relates to the external source 25livepub.collegenet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

646.8 kB

After Optimization

566.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northern.edu main page is 646.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 259.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 52.9 kB

  • Original 69.7 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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. 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 52.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 257.2 kB
  • After minification 246.4 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. Northern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 259.8 kB
  • After minification 259.8 kB
  • After compression 244.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 496 B

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 60.1 kB
  • After compression 59.6 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. Northern.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (64%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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380 ms

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125 ms

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54 ms

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54 ms

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64 ms

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58 ms

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72 ms

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Accessibility Review

northern.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Best Practices

northern.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northern.edu SEO score

92

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 Northern.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 Northern.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

northern.edu

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