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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ciu.edu

Columbia International University (CIU) | HIGHER LEARNING. DEEPER FAITH.

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

608 ms

Page Rendered

423 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ciu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ciu.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,160 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ciu.edu

55 ms

www.ciu.edu

35 ms

css

63 ms

css_q18vFNz3vVs9u-ltuWmTYJRXMPWg_xdBVF0VIqCopSU.css

14 ms

cohesion-theme-stylesheet.min.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Ciu.edu, 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (112 ms) relates to the external source Ciu.formstack.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.2 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ciu.edu main page is 1.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 149.6 kB
  • After minification 147.1 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 124.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 238.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, CIU needs image optimization as it can save up to 238.3 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 104.7 kB
  • After minification 104.7 kB
  • After compression 104.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 50.3 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. Ciu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (38%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CIU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ciu.edu

ciu.edu

55 ms

www.ciu.edu

www.ciu.edu

35 ms

css

css

63 ms

css_q18vFNz3vVs9u-ltuWmTYJRXMPWg_xdBVF0VIqCopSU.css

css_q18vFNz3vVs9u-ltuWmTYJRXMPWg_xdBVF0VIqCopSU.css

14 ms

cohesion-theme-stylesheet.min.css

cohesion-theme-stylesheet.min.css

19 ms

css_DfIk0kDE_97QqZBJr5TF4iiP6Rt7nG3gWSu-Jh5AKCY.css

css_DfIk0kDE_97QqZBJr5TF4iiP6Rt7nG3gWSu-Jh5AKCY.css

39 ms

cohesion-theme-stylesheet.min.css

cohesion-theme-stylesheet.min.css

48 ms

css_qpU2mloN9TegqlvXj2CcAUhzeohExZoo59KWxUc_BbE.css

css_qpU2mloN9TegqlvXj2CcAUhzeohExZoo59KWxUc_BbE.css

53 ms

css_qLlvSO_PWaV-tCi1KrIU2Tk6QOSV6AgumYvCOUpFTJQ.css

css_qLlvSO_PWaV-tCi1KrIU2Tk6QOSV6AgumYvCOUpFTJQ.css

52 ms

info_request

info_request

112 ms

js_kJ6TE3o2KcDaTZiPzfGlGtpAWhYULsHkSHbKWxPmlw4.js

js_kJ6TE3o2KcDaTZiPzfGlGtpAWhYULsHkSHbKWxPmlw4.js

52 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

77 ms

ciu-logo-stacked.webp

ciu-logo-stacked.webp

9 ms

menu.webp

menu.webp

19 ms

Business%20and%20Management.png

Business%20and%20Management.png

35 ms

Education%20and%20Teaching.png

Education%20and%20Teaching.png

45 ms

BioMedical%20Science_1.png

BioMedical%20Science_1.png

37 ms

liberal-arts-communications.jpg

liberal-arts-communications.jpg

20 ms

Psychology%20and%20Counseling.png

Psychology%20and%20Counseling.png

24 ms

Seminary%20and%20Ministry.png

Seminary%20and%20Ministry.png

21 ms

Brunson-Price-with-pennant.jpg

Brunson-Price-with-pennant.jpg

23 ms

Gao-with-Jones%27-web.jpg

Gao-with-Jones%27-web.jpg

23 ms

Bio-Grant-Taylor-Hollis-web.jpg

Bio-Grant-Taylor-Hollis-web.jpg

34 ms

The-Olshines-pose-2-web.jpg

The-Olshines-pose-2-web.jpg

36 ms

CIU-logo_horizontal_reverse.png

CIU-logo_horizontal_reverse.png

33 ms

CIU-logo_vertical_reverse.png

CIU-logo_vertical_reverse.png

41 ms

icon--phone-gold.png

icon--phone-gold.png

41 ms

icon--map-marker-gold.png

icon--map-marker-gold.png

41 ms

social-icon-facebook.png

social-icon-facebook.png

40 ms

social-icon-instagram.png

social-icon-instagram.png

40 ms

social-icon-youtube.png

social-icon-youtube.png

42 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

36 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

47 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

53 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

55 ms

form_46a850919c.js

form_46a850919c.js

55 ms

footer--combined.png

footer--combined.png

34 ms

js

js

61 ms

destination

destination

50 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

19 ms

Accessibility Review

ciu.edu accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ciu.edu best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ciu.edu SEO score

83

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 Ciu.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 Ciu.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

ciu.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of CIU. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: