Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

apex.creighton.edu

Apache Tomcat/8.5.38

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

343 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apex.creighton.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 343 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apex.creighton.edu performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apex.creighton.edu

343 ms

fmw.css

150 ms

fmw_top_frame_welcome_area.css

150 ms

fmw_bottom_area.css

148 ms

fmw_all.js

173 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Apex.creighton.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (543 ms) belongs to the original domain Apex.creighton.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 119.2 kB (47%)

Content Size

251.8 kB

After Optimization

132.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Apex.creighton.edu main page is 251.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 132.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 1.9 kB, which is 12% 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 13.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 132.2 kB
  • After minification 108.3 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. Obviously, Apex Creighton needs image optimization as it can save up to 23.9 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 72.2 kB

  • Original 91.0 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 72.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Apex.creighton.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (22%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Creighton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apex.creighton.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

apex.creighton.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

apex.creighton.edu SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apex.creighton.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Apex.creighton.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 Apex Creighton. 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: