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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

usd.edu

USD Home | University of South Dakota

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

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University of South Dakota is a comprehensive, liberal arts university offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 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

usd.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.285

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

usd.edu

167 ms

www.usd.edu

1013 ms

optimized-min.css

44 ms

optimized-min.css

82 ms

optimized-min.css

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Usd.edu, 8% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Usd.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 677.0 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Usd.edu main page is 2.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 177.0 kB

  • Original 234.8 kB
  • After minification 229.0 kB
  • After compression 57.8 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. 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 177.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 330.4 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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, USD needs image optimization as it can save up to 330.4 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 133.8 kB

  • Original 372.8 kB
  • After minification 372.6 kB
  • After compression 238.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 133.8 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 134.2 kB
  • After minification 134.2 kB
  • After compression 98.4 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. Usd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (33%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of USD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

usd.edu

usd.edu

167 ms

www.usd.edu

www.usd.edu

1013 ms

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44 ms

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82 ms

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112 ms

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243 ms

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34 ms

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130 ms

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33 ms

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24 ms

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171 ms

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111 ms

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432 ms

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432 ms

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206 ms

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1165 ms

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304 ms

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284 ms

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246 ms

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533 ms

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328 ms

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458 ms

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458 ms

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54 ms

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116 ms

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104 ms

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228 ms

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207 ms

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195 ms

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306 ms

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Accessibility Review

usd.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

usd.edu best practices score

75

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

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

usd.edu SEO score

99

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Usd.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Usd.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of USD. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: