Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

snhu.edu

Southern New Hampshire University - Online & On Campus Degrees | SNHU

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

snhu.edu screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Snhu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

snhu.edu performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,970 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

snhu.edu

39 ms

www.snhu.edu

140 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

39 ms

screen.min.css

43 ms

slick.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Snhu.edu, 9% (10 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Match.adsrvr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Snhu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (39%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Snhu.edu main page is 2.9 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. 80% 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 183.3 kB

  • Original 234.5 kB
  • After minification 201.7 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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 32.8 kB, which is 14% 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 183.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 180.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, SNHU needs image optimization as it can save up to 180.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 492.3 kB

  • Original 738.1 kB
  • After minification 680.7 kB
  • After compression 245.8 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 492.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 286.1 kB

  • Original 345.4 kB
  • After minification 343.6 kB
  • After compression 59.3 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. Snhu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 286.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (60%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SNHU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

snhu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

snhu.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

snhu.edu SEO score

97

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 Snhu.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 Snhu.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 SNHU. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: