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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

student.wiu.edu

Western Illinois University - Your potential. Our purpose.

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

578 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

376 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Student.wiu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 578 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

student.wiu.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.386

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wiu.edu

578 ms

reset.css

104 ms

default.css

102 ms

nivo-slider-min.css

102 ms

navigationmenu-min.css

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Student.wiu.edu, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (578 ms) relates to the external source Wiu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

909.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Student.wiu.edu main page is 1.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 781.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 9.0 kB, which is 12% 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 60.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 331 B

  • Original 781.5 kB
  • After minification 781.2 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. Student Wiu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 145.0 kB
  • After minification 140.1 kB
  • After compression 103.2 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 41.9 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 37.8 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Student.wiu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (72%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Wiu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.wiu.edu

www.wiu.edu

578 ms

reset.css

reset.css

104 ms

default.css

default.css

102 ms

nivo-slider-min.css

nivo-slider-min.css

102 ms

navigationmenu-min.css

navigationmenu-min.css

101 ms

base-min.css

base-min.css

101 ms

desktop-min.css

desktop-min.css

106 ms

tablet-min.css

tablet-min.css

137 ms

phones-min.css

phones-min.css

136 ms

desktop-min.css

desktop-min.css

147 ms

tablet-min.css

tablet-min.css

146 ms

phones-min.css

phones-min.css

146 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

26 ms

jquery.tabnavigation.plugin.2018.js

jquery.tabnavigation.plugin.2018.js

145 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

171 ms

css

css

32 ms

css

css

50 ms

js

js

64 ms

js

js

94 ms

css2

css2

62 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

84 ms

common-minified.js

common-minified.js

160 ms

ga.js

ga.js

178 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

157 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

179 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

178 ms

scevent.min.js

scevent.min.js

202 ms

bat.js

bat.js

202 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

139 ms

tv2track.js

tv2track.js

216 ms

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magnifying_glass2.gif

magnifying_glass2.gif

109 ms

wlogo.png

wlogo.png

109 ms

eliminating_barriers_banner.jpg

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194 ms

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eliminating_barriers_banner_mobile.jpg

211 ms

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220 ms

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goldfarb-cpa-construction.jpg

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220 ms

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atf-min.jpg

230 ms

fb.svg

fb.svg

244 ms

twit.svg

twit.svg

255 ms

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255 ms

insta.svg

insta.svg

265 ms

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in.svg

276 ms

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27 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

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119 ms

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14002146.js

15 ms

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tv2track.php

tv2track.php

15 ms

adsct

adsct

57 ms

adsct

adsct

99 ms

Accessibility Review

student.wiu.edu accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

student.wiu.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

SEO Factors

student.wiu.edu SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Student.wiu.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 Student.wiu.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

student.wiu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Student Wiu. 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: