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chu.edu

Colorado Heights University – Helping You Reach New Heights

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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About Website

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CHU is a private, nonprofit, multicultural university located in Denver, Colorado at Federal and Dartmouth on the historic Loretto Heights campus.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

chu.edu

136 ms

css

40 ms

font-awesome.min.css

20 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

76 ms

style.css

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Chu.edu, 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (546 ms) belongs to the original domain Chu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (54%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Chu.edu main page is 2.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 43.1 kB
  • After minification 43.1 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 33.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 697.4 kB
  • After minification 668.9 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. Chu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 771.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 396.0 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 771.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 499.7 kB

  • Original 565.2 kB
  • After minification 510.5 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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. Chu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 499.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (79%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

chu.edu SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Chu.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 Chu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: