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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

csun.edu

California State University, Northridge

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

472 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

885 ms

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About Website

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

CSUN stands out among Southern California universities with its dedication to student success, diversity, and community involvement. Get started now!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Csun.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 472 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

csun.edu performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.csun.edu

472 ms

google_tag.script.js

34 ms

css_I2pWMaC5yghBGRrsKUqaasXPhUhomy6xWRAPI5N1tz0.css

40 ms

css_pjfundS5n2eEYUJCJmONNE06rKDY2_R6SJ8MCG7e6ZE.css

46 ms

css2

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Csun.edu, 70% (37 requests) were made to Live-csu-northridge.pantheonsite.io and 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (661 ms) relates to the external source Newsroom.csun.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 207.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Csun.edu main page is 3.1 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. 75% 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 95.9 kB

  • Original 131.9 kB
  • After minification 122.1 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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 95.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Csun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 201.5 kB
  • After minification 200.5 kB
  • After compression 145.2 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 56.3 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Csun.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.1 kB or 95% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (48%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Csun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.csun.edu

www.csun.edu

472 ms

google_tag.script.js

google_tag.script.js

34 ms

css_I2pWMaC5yghBGRrsKUqaasXPhUhomy6xWRAPI5N1tz0.css

css_I2pWMaC5yghBGRrsKUqaasXPhUhomy6xWRAPI5N1tz0.css

40 ms

css_pjfundS5n2eEYUJCJmONNE06rKDY2_R6SJ8MCG7e6ZE.css

css_pjfundS5n2eEYUJCJmONNE06rKDY2_R6SJ8MCG7e6ZE.css

46 ms

css2

css2

43 ms

AboutFullWidthHero_1_1600x800.jpg

AboutFullWidthHero_1_1600x800.jpg

92 ms

HomepageProgramFinder_1_900x600.jpg

HomepageProgramFinder_1_900x600.jpg

93 ms

HomepageProgramFinder_2_600x900.jpg

HomepageProgramFinder_2_600x900.jpg

95 ms

HomepageProgramFinder_3_900x600.jpg

HomepageProgramFinder_3_900x600.jpg

38 ms

HomepageProgramFinder_4_900x600.jpg

HomepageProgramFinder_4_900x600.jpg

93 ms

Oasis.jpg

Oasis.jpg

661 ms

Commencement-4-web-1024x720.jpg

Commencement-4-web-1024x720.jpg

594 ms

iStock-1216351945-1024x1024.jpg

iStock-1216351945-1024x1024.jpg

471 ms

HomepageFullWidthHero_1600x800.jpg

HomepageFullWidthHero_1600x800.jpg

37 ms

HomepageStudentLife_1_900x900.jpg

HomepageStudentLife_1_900x900.jpg

38 ms

HomepageStudentLife_3_900x600.jpg

HomepageStudentLife_3_900x600.jpg

31 ms

HomepageStudentLife_4_900x600.jpg

HomepageStudentLife_4_900x600.jpg

35 ms

HomepageStudentLife_2_900x600.jpg

HomepageStudentLife_2_900x600.jpg

32 ms

Fabian-Chavez-with-Joe-Jonas-2.gif

Fabian-Chavez-with-Joe-Jonas-2.gif

35 ms

Homepage_Roman-Zaragoza_09_05_23_v1.jpg

Homepage_Roman-Zaragoza_09_05_23_v1.jpg

38 ms

URA_Malachia_Hoover_600x600.jpg

URA_Malachia_Hoover_600x600.jpg

38 ms

belong_march2024.jpg

belong_march2024.jpg

40 ms

HomepageFooter_1_1600x800-min.jpg

HomepageFooter_1_1600x800-min.jpg

41 ms

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JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM70w9.woff

69 ms

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JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCu170w9.woff

93 ms

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JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtZ6Ew9.woff

159 ms

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JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtr6Ew9.woff

183 ms

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCs16Ew9.woff

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCs16Ew9.woff

182 ms

BngbUXZYTXPIvIBgJJSb6s3BzlRRfKOFbvjojISWaw.woff

BngbUXZYTXPIvIBgJJSb6s3BzlRRfKOFbvjojISWaw.woff

183 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

26 ms

nodelist.foreach.js

nodelist.foreach.js

46 ms

element.matches.js

element.matches.js

47 ms

object.assign.js

object.assign.js

37 ms

css.escape.js

css.escape.js

46 ms

es6-promise.auto.min.js

es6-promise.auto.min.js

24 ms

once.min.js

once.min.js

56 ms

jquery.once.min.js

jquery.once.min.js

67 ms

drupalSettingsLoader.js

drupalSettingsLoader.js

47 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

55 ms

drupal.init.js

drupal.init.js

55 ms

index.umd.min.js

index.umd.min.js

54 ms

main.js

main.js

65 ms

progress.js

progress.js

144 ms

jquery.once.bc.js

jquery.once.bc.js

143 ms

loadjs.min.js

loadjs.min.js

143 ms

responsive_image.ajax.js

responsive_image.ajax.js

144 ms

ajax.js

ajax.js

144 ms

csun-behaviors.js

csun-behaviors.js

142 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

56 ms

js

js

52 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

23 ms

collect

collect

86 ms

collect

collect

37 ms

Accessibility Review

csun.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

csun.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

csun.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Csun.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 Csun.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

csun.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Csun. 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: