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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

studentunion.nku.edu

Student Union Operations: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

897 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

447 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentunion.nku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 897 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studentunion.nku.edu performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value35.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentunion.nku.edu

897 ms

studentunion.html

1016 ms

gtm.js

82 ms

js

123 ms

css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Studentunion.nku.edu, 71% (45 requests) were made to Inside.nku.edu and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Inside.nku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (21%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

6.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studentunion.nku.edu main page is 7.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 59.0 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 11.2 kB, which is 19% 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 48.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 515.5 kB

  • Original 6.5 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Student Union Nku images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 459.1 kB

  • Original 625.8 kB
  • After minification 625.7 kB
  • After compression 166.7 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 459.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 602.4 kB

  • Original 694.2 kB
  • After minification 515.6 kB
  • After compression 91.8 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. Studentunion.nku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 602.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (28%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Union Nku. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

studentunion.nku.edu

studentunion.nku.edu

897 ms

studentunion.html

studentunion.html

1016 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

82 ms

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123 ms

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45 ms

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61 ms

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63 ms

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309 ms

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38 ms

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43 ms

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43 ms

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180 ms

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181 ms

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Accessibility Review

studentunion.nku.edu accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

studentunion.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

studentunion.nku.edu SEO score

87

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

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 Studentunion.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 Studentunion.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

studentunion.nku.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Student Union Nku. 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: