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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    38% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 63% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

civil.cua.edu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Catholic University, Washington DC | CUA

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

686 ms

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About Website

Visit civil.cua.edu now to see the best up-to-date Civil CUA content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about civil.cua.edu

Offering bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in civil engineering and environmental engineering, and a 5-year dual-degree bachelor's program with the School of Architecture.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Civil.cua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

civil.cua.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value39,070 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.html

73 ms

jquery.min.js

82 ms

header.js

109 ms

style.css

126 ms

custom.css

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Civil.cua.edu, 14% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

851.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Civil.cua.edu main page is 1.1 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 680.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 146.8 kB

  • Original 158.6 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 104.6 kB, which is 66% 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 146.8 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 680.0 kB
  • After minification 658.3 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. Civil CUA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 171.2 kB
  • After minification 171.2 kB
  • After compression 139.2 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 32.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 54.2 kB
  • After minification 54.2 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Civil.cua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (73%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Civil 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 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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73 ms

jquery.min.js

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82 ms

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109 ms

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126 ms

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107 ms

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81 ms

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117 ms

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103 ms

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107 ms

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190 ms

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108 ms

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110 ms

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119 ms

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302 ms

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289 ms

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730 ms

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143 ms

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143 ms

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Accessibility Review

civil.cua.edu accessibility score

86

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 are not valid or misspelled

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

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

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

Best Practices

civil.cua.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

civil.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 Civil.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 Civil.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

civil.cua.edu

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