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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% 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

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

wheeling.edu

Wheeling University - Excellence in education and an unwavering commitment to student success.

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

584 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wheeling.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 2.9 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

wheeling.edu performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.33

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wheeling.edu

141 ms

wheeling.edu

939 ms

style.css

168 ms

style.min.css

310 ms

styles.css

156 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Wheeling.edu, 6% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.yoshki.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (939 ms) belongs to the original domain Wheeling.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 454.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wheeling.edu main page is 5.3 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. 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 45.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 119.2 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Wheeling images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 103.6 kB

  • Original 422.5 kB
  • After minification 421.4 kB
  • After compression 318.9 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 103.6 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 186.2 kB

  • Original 307.8 kB
  • After minification 287.8 kB
  • After compression 121.6 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. Wheeling.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 186.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (41%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wheeling. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wheeling.edu

wheeling.edu

141 ms

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wheeling.edu

939 ms

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style.css

168 ms

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style.min.css

310 ms

styles.css

styles.css

156 ms

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259 ms

css

css

28 ms

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315 ms

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164 ms

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207 ms

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216 ms

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20 ms

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38 ms

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9 ms

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170 ms

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211 ms

select2.min.js

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16 ms

select2.min.css

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18 ms

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js

83 ms

banner.js

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218 ms

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221 ms

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index.js

264 ms

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

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263 ms

jquery.localScroll.min.js

jquery.localScroll.min.js

285 ms

p.css

p.css

26 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

137 ms

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135 ms

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131 ms

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132 ms

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131 ms

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131 ms

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131 ms

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517 ms

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197 ms

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197 ms

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534 ms

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268 ms

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516 ms

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269 ms

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269 ms

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356 ms

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535 ms

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355 ms

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533 ms

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532 ms

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534 ms

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534 ms

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535 ms

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535 ms

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535 ms

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535 ms

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241 ms

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167 ms

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506 ms

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634 ms

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655 ms

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635 ms

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635 ms

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768 ms

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297 ms

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109 ms

analytics.js

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89 ms

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572 ms

bannerx.png

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570 ms

scevent.min.js

scevent.min.js

160 ms

fbevents.js

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98 ms

events.js

events.js

97 ms

jquery-1.3.2.js

jquery-1.3.2.js

690 ms

yoshki-library.js

yoshki-library.js

598 ms

logo.png

logo.png

26 ms

collect

collect

108 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

49 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

66 ms

base.js

base.js

108 ms

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102 ms

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150 ms

ad_status.js

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159 ms

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139 ms

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103 ms

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20 ms

Create

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105 ms

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94 ms

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13 ms

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10 ms

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14 ms

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14 ms

GenerateIT

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30 ms

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4 ms

Accessibility Review

wheeling.edu accessibility score

84

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.

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

wheeling.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wheeling.edu SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Wheeling.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 Wheeling.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

wheeling.edu

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