Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

augusta.edu

Augusta University

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

210 ms

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About Website

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Located in Augusta, Georgia, Augusta University is a public research university and medical center dedicated to training the next generation of innovators, leaders and health care providers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Augusta.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

augusta.edu performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.177

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

augusta.edu

103 ms

www.augusta.edu

449 ms

bootstrap-combined.min.css

17 ms

superfish.css

30 ms

template.css

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Augusta.edu, 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (566 ms) belongs to the original domain Augusta.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Augusta.edu main page is 8.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 39.3 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.5 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 36.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 237.0 kB

  • Original 7.8 MB
  • After minification 7.6 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. Augusta images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 295.6 kB

  • Original 460.0 kB
  • After minification 412.1 kB
  • After compression 164.3 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 295.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 282.0 kB

  • Original 337.8 kB
  • After minification 313.1 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Augusta.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 282.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (53%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Augusta. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

augusta.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

augusta.edu best practices score

62

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

augusta.edu SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Augusta.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 Augusta.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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