Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

policy.nau.edu

University Policy Library | University Policy Library

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

289 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Policy.nau.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 289 ms and then it took 2.7 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

policy.nau.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,650 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

policy.nau.edu

289 ms

74 ms

university-policy-library

233 ms

gtm.js

97 ms

lwj6mlz.js

198 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Policy.nau.edu, 35% (32 requests) were made to Nau.edu and 15% (14 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (884 ms) relates to the external source Nau.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

530.6 kB

After Optimization

439.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Policy.nau.edu main page is 530.6 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. 75% 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 379.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 108.8 kB
  • After minification 104.8 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 87.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 379.6 kB
  • After minification 376.9 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. Policy Nau images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 926 B

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 39.0 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Policy.nau.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (79%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Policy 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 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

policy.nau.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

policy.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

policy.nau.edu SEO score

98

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

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 Policy.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 Policy.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

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