Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

tayloru.edu

Taylor University | A Christian Liberal Arts University | Taylor University Upland, IN

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

658 ms

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About Website

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Top Christian liberal arts university in Indiana. Ranked in the Top 3 Midwest Colleges for 26 years. Pursue academic excellence in a transformative community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tayloru.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 1.7 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

tayloru.edu performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,970 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.taylor.edu

46 ms

www.taylor.edu

96 ms

bootstrap.min.css

82 ms

fontawesome.min.css

46 ms

splide.min.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Tayloru.edu, 7% (4 requests) were made to I3.ytimg.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Plugins.flockler.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (517 ms) relates to the external source Taylor.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 226.4 kB (34%)

Content Size

658.5 kB

After Optimization

432.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Tayloru.edu main page is 658.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 231.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 174.6 kB

  • Original 204.3 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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 89.6 kB, which is 44% 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 174.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 231.7 kB
  • After minification 211.8 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. Taylor U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 130.9 kB
  • After minification 130.9 kB
  • After compression 119.9 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 91.6 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 70.7 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. Tayloru.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.9 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (23%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Taylor U. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tayloru.edu accessibility score

86

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

tayloru.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

tayloru.edu SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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