Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

delta.usu.edu

Welcome to USU | Delta | Statewide Campuses | USU

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

175 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

419 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Delta.usu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 175 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

delta.usu.edu performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value82.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,320 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.457

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value83.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

delta.usu.edu

175 ms

delta.usu.edu

241 ms

388 ms

bootstrap.min.css

368 ms

main.css

365 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Delta.usu.edu, 18% (9 requests) were made to Usu.edu and 10% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Fontawesome.usu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Delta.usu.edu main page is 5.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 46.8 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 7.9 kB, which is 17% 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 38.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 560.9 kB
  • After minification 558.7 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. Delta USU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 159.7 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.9 MB
  • After compression 4.7 MB

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

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 105.1 kB
  • After minification 105.1 kB
  • After compression 98.9 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. Delta.usu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (74%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Delta USU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

delta.usu.edu accessibility score

85

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

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

delta.usu.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

delta.usu.edu SEO score

91

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

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