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calu.edu

PennWest California | PennWest California

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

312 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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PennWest California (PennWest California) is a public university that offers 200+ programs, including associate, bachelor, master, and online programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Calu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 312 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

calu.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

calu.edu

312 ms

www.calu.edu

176 ms

calu_screen_global_nomap.css

102 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

142 ms

plugins.js

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Calu.edu, 8% (5 requests) were made to Events-calendar.calu.edu and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) relates to the external source Events-calendar.calu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 235.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Calu.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 50.8 kB

  • Original 62.0 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. 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 50.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 74.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Calu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 78.8 kB

  • Original 123.4 kB
  • After minification 121.6 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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 78.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 32.8 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Calu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (25%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Calu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

calu.edu SEO score

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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 Calu.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 Calu.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 Calu. 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: