Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

college.ku.edu

Home | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

832 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed College.ku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

college.ku.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.255

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

college.ku.edu

197 ms

system.base.css

63 ms

system.menus.css

65 ms

system.messages.css

68 ms

system.theme.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original College.ku.edu, 20% (25 requests) were made to Webmedia.ku.edu and 4% (5 requests) were made to 25livepub.collegenet.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (555 ms) belongs to the original domain College.ku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 950.6 kB (39%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of College.ku.edu main page is 2.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 123.4 kB

  • Original 149.0 kB
  • After minification 143.5 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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 123.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 375.6 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, College Ku needs image optimization as it can save up to 375.6 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 370.9 kB

  • Original 527.0 kB
  • After minification 454.8 kB
  • After compression 156.1 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 370.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 111.7 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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. College.ku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (68%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Ku. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

college.ku.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

college.ku.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

college.ku.edu SEO score

79

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

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

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 College.ku.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 College.ku.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 College Ku. 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: