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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

wku.edu

WKU - Western Kentucky University

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

744 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wku.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wku.edu

88 ms

www.wku.edu

232 ms

gtm.js

68 ms

bootstrap-min.css

119 ms

all.min.js

943 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Wku.edu, 17% (5 requests) were made to App.wku.edu and 7% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (943 ms) relates to the external source App.wku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 47.1 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wku.edu main page is 2.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 54.2 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 41.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 149.1 kB
  • After minification 147.5 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. WKU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 2.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 458 B

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. Wku.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (67%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WKU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wku.edu

wku.edu

88 ms

www.wku.edu

www.wku.edu

232 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

68 ms

bootstrap-min.css

bootstrap-min.css

119 ms

all.min.js

all.min.js

943 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

147 ms

ping

ping

55 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

680 ms

tether.min.js

tether.min.js

501 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

499 ms

stickyfill-min.js

stickyfill-min.js

220 ms

boilerplate.js

boilerplate.js

501 ms

wku.js

wku.js

219 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

257 ms

wku-logo-no-cupola.svg

wku-logo-no-cupola.svg

275 ms

mywku-logo.png

mywku-logo.png

275 ms

campus-spotlight-poster.jpg

campus-spotlight-poster.jpg

559 ms

wku-logo.svg

wku-logo.svg

270 ms

js

js

250 ms

WESTERNKENTUCKYUNIVERSITYLOU.js

WESTERNKENTUCKYUNIVERSITYLOU.js

191 ms

opensans-regular.woff

opensans-regular.woff

472 ms

opensans-light.woff

opensans-light.woff

485 ms

opensans-semibold.woff

opensans-semibold.woff

485 ms

opensans-bold.woff

opensans-bold.woff

537 ms

overpass-bold.woff

overpass-bold.woff

378 ms

droidserif-italic-webfont.woff

droidserif-italic-webfont.woff

356 ms

opensans-italic.woff

opensans-italic.woff

396 ms

opensans-lightitalic.woff

opensans-lightitalic.woff

396 ms

opensans-semibolditalic.woff

opensans-semibolditalic.woff

429 ms

opensans-bolditalic.woff

opensans-bolditalic.woff

428 ms

Accessibility Review

wku.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

wku.edu best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

wku.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wku.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Wku.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

wku.edu

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