Access stthomas.edu. University of St. Thomas

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value52.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.9 s

0/100

10%

stthomas.edu

32 ms

stthomas.edu

30 ms

app.css

115 ms

main.css

109 ms

compare.css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Stthomas.edu, 35% (13 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Amcharts.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (367 ms) relates to the external source News.stthomas.edu.

Content Size

16.1 MB

After Optimization

14.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Stthomas.edu main page is 16.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 69.3 kB

Original 93.8 kB
After minification 92.9 kB
After compression 24.5 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 69.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

Original 13.4 MB
After minification 13.4 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. St Thomas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.8 MB
After compression 728.7 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 1.1 MB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 653.0 kB

Original 760.1 kB
After minification 759.7 kB
After compression 107.0 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. Stthomas.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 653.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St Thomas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.