Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

admissions.cua.edu

Admission - The Catholic University of America, Washington DC | CUA

Page Load Speed

730 ms in total

First Response

28 ms

Resources Loaded

478 ms

Page Rendered

224 ms

admissions.cua.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.cua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 28 ms and then it took 702 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admissions.cua.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.218

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.cua.edu

28 ms

js-image-slider.css

12 ms

mcVideoPlugin.js

13 ms

js-image-slider.js

13 ms

reset-fonts.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Admissions.cua.edu, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cua.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (137 ms) relates to the external source Dvolwebservices2.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 519.3 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

845.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Admissions.cua.edu main page is 1.4 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 690.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 27.3 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 12.7 kB, which is 38% 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 27.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 690.4 kB
  • After minification 664.6 kB

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. Admission S CUA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 241.3 kB

  • Original 368.6 kB
  • After minification 364.1 kB
  • After compression 127.3 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 241.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 224.8 kB

  • Original 272.6 kB
  • After minification 264.7 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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. Admissions.cua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (50%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admission S CUA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

admissions.cua.edu accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

admissions.cua.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

admissions.cua.edu SEO score

81

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

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 Admissions.cua.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 Admissions.cua.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 Admission S CUA. 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: