Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

creighton.edu

Creighton University | A private, Jesuit university

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

creighton.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Creighton content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about creighton.edu

Creighton University is a Jesuit, Catholic university in Omaha, NE, bridging health, law, business and the arts and sciences for a more just world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Creighton.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

creighton.edu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.creighton.edu

267 ms

css_EolCnC0jTkXFRvXoVwFj4sxzvwbzAIUuh6NcWTcxFK0.css

91 ms

css_fVTmQIhh4y1sPadtJ9kOInFxUdkdZvlI3yZN9kSXrf4.css

138 ms

css_CWf4UNW_TWEdg5fz4MNCjUGByti51edA2lZ5DVy9vlU.css

290 ms

css_y2_Bpojy8CF7scdfkHiI16KxJTE3kYHMouYsLDBVkRI.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Creighton.edu, 8% (4 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (385 ms) belongs to the original domain Creighton.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (32%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Creighton.edu main page is 5.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 108.1 kB

  • Original 126.8 kB
  • After minification 124.1 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 108.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 126.8 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Creighton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 509.7 kB

  • Original 753.1 kB
  • After minification 686.7 kB
  • After compression 243.3 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 509.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 849.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 166.9 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. Creighton.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 849.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (51%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Creighton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

creighton.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

creighton.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

creighton.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Creighton.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 Creighton.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 Creighton. 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: