Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

rockhurst.edu

Rockhurst University | Kansas City | Where Leaders Learn

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

192 ms

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About Website

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Rockhurst University is a Jesuit, liberal arts university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the urban heart of Kansas City, Missouri.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rockhurst.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 2 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

rockhurst.edu performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rockhurst.edu

74 ms

ping

42 ms

system.base.css

21 ms

system.menus.css

31 ms

system.messages.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 197 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (158 requests) were addressed to the original Rockhurst.edu, 8% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (674 ms) belongs to the original domain Rockhurst.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 431.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Rockhurst.edu main page is 5.2 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 187.6 kB

  • Original 231.0 kB
  • After minification 220.5 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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 187.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 211.8 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Rockhurst images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 105.4 kB
  • After minification 105.4 kB
  • After compression 97.0 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

-40%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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. Rockhurst.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.0 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (38%)

Requests Now

181

After Optimization

112

The browser has sent 181 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rockhurst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 41 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rockhurst.edu accessibility score

88

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

[role] values are not valid

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.

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

rockhurst.edu best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

rockhurst.edu SEO score

90

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 Rockhurst.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 Rockhurst.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 Rockhurst. 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: