Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

wou.edu

Western Oregon University | Oregon’s Oldest Public University

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

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About Website

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Western Oregon University is among the most affordable of Oregon public universities and features a wide range of practical, career-focused academic programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wou.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wou.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,970 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wou.edu

251 ms

www.wou.edu

458 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

276 ms

bootstrap.min.css

351 ms

westernoregon.min.css

266 ms

Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Wou.edu, 14% (22 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 13% (20 requests) were made to Scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Wou.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 858.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Wou.edu main page is 3.1 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 187.9 kB

  • Original 218.4 kB
  • After minification 215.5 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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 187.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 78.7 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Wou images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 236.8 kB

  • Original 345.2 kB
  • After minification 333.0 kB
  • After compression 108.4 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 236.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 354.8 kB

  • Original 423.7 kB
  • After minification 388.7 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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. Wou.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 354.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (47%)

Requests Now

144

After Optimization

76

The browser has sent 144 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wou. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wou.edu accessibility score

89

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

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

wou.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wou.edu SEO score

75

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Wou.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 Wou.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 description is not detected on the main page of Wou. 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: