Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

dc.ewu.edu

EWU Digital Commons | Eastern Washington University Research

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

120 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dc.ewu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dc.ewu.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dc.ewu.edu

149 ms

dc.ewu.edu

276 ms

yui-min.js

49 ms

jquery.min.js

39 ms

launch-d525bb0064d8.min.js

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Dc.ewu.edu, 52% (67 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

586.1 kB

After Optimization

446.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Dc.ewu.edu main page is 586.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 355.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 91.9 kB
  • After minification 85.6 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 71.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 72.6 kB
  • After minification 60.5 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. Obviously, Dc EWU needs image optimization as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 355.7 kB
  • After minification 354.3 kB
  • After compression 325.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 66.0 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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. Dc.ewu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.7 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 108 (86%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dc EWU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 85 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dc.ewu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

dc.ewu.edu best practices score

58

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

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

SEO Factors

dc.ewu.edu SEO score

96

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

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 Dc.ewu.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 Dc.ewu.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 description is not detected on the main page of Dc EWU. 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: