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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

publications.cua.edu

Creative Services - University Communications - Catholic University of America, Washington, DC | CUA

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

291 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Publications.cua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 291 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

publications.cua.edu performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.31

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

publications.cua.edu

291 ms

reset-fonts.css

20 ms

base-min.css

16 ms

core.css

25 ms

theme.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Publications.cua.edu, 54% (19 requests) were made to Cua.edu and 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (643 ms) relates to the external source Cua.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

260.9 kB

After Optimization

201.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Publications.cua.edu main page is 260.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 188.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 3.6 kB, which is 20% 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 13.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 188.7 kB
  • After minification 171.7 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. Publications CUA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-78%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. Publications.cua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (56%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Publications 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

publications.cua.edu

publications.cua.edu

291 ms

reset-fonts.css

reset-fonts.css

20 ms

base-min.css

base-min.css

16 ms

core.css

core.css

25 ms

theme.css

theme.css

20 ms

global.css

global.css

595 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

43 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

63 ms

school-core.js

school-core.js

643 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

21 ms

print.css

print.css

10 ms

bg-body.gif

bg-body.gif

58 ms

cua-logo-small.gif

cua-logo-small.gif

49 ms

nav-off-bg.gif

nav-off-bg.gif

47 ms

bullet-square-black.gif

bullet-square-black.gif

47 ms

bullet-arrow-black.gif

bullet-arrow-black.gif

48 ms

ui-icons_4d4d4d_256x240.png

ui-icons_4d4d4d_256x240.png

48 ms

facebook_1.png

facebook_1.png

44 ms

Twitter_1.png

Twitter_1.png

163 ms

YouTube_1.png

YouTube_1.png

159 ms

pinterest_1.png

pinterest_1.png

158 ms

linkedin_1.png

linkedin_1.png

160 ms

instagram_1.png

instagram_1.png

49 ms

search-bg.png

search-bg.png

160 ms

search-this-site.png

search-this-site.png

50 ms

search-CUA.png

search-CUA.png

51 ms

bg-pagewrapper-plain.jpg

bg-pagewrapper-plain.jpg

43 ms

6Home.jpg

6Home.jpg

158 ms

CUA-Style-Guide-Cover.jpg

CUA-Style-Guide-Cover.jpg

46 ms

ga.js

ga.js

29 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

28 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

handheld.css

handheld.css

11 ms

calendar.css

calendar.css

15 ms

iphone.css

iphone.css

9 ms

Accessibility Review

publications.cua.edu accessibility score

87

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 do not have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best Practices

publications.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

publications.cua.edu SEO score

79

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 Publications.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 Publications.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

publications.cua.edu

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