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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

cnu.edu

Christopher Newport University - Christopher Newport University - Christopher Newport University

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

About Website

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

A four-year public liberal arts and sciences university in Newport News, Virginia, Christopher Newport offers great teaching and small class sizes with an emphasis on leadership, civic engagement and ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cnu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cnu.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cnu.edu

11 ms

cnu.edu

29 ms

gtm.js

107 ms

reset.css

16 ms

bootstrap-it.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 176 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Cnu.edu, 57% (101 requests) were made to Juicer.io and 6% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 916.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

25.9 MB

After Optimization

24.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cnu.edu main page is 25.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 24.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 125.5 kB

  • Original 144.3 kB
  • After minification 120.1 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 24.3 kB, which is 17% 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 125.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 215.3 kB

  • Original 24.7 MB
  • After minification 24.5 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. Cnu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 107.0 kB

  • Original 468.7 kB
  • After minification 430.9 kB
  • After compression 361.7 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 107.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 468.5 kB

  • Original 583.5 kB
  • After minification 448.0 kB
  • After compression 115.1 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. Cnu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 468.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (23%)

Requests Now

159

After Optimization

123

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 159 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cnu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cnu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

cnu.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cnu.edu SEO score

90

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

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 Cnu.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 Cnu.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 data is detected on the main page of Cnu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: