Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

ellucian.com

Unifying Campus Technology Solutions to Power Higher Ed | Ellucian

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

425 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ellucian.com page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ellucian.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.566

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ellucian.com

210 ms

www.ellucian.com

174 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

16 ms

4139640018.js

288 ms

bootstrap.min.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Ellucian.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Secure.livechatinc.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (288 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.optimizely.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (63%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

702.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Ellucian.com main page is 1.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 49.1 kB

  • Original 60.7 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 15.5 kB, which is 26% 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 49.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 270.3 kB
  • After minification 245.1 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. Ellucian images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 904.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 404.3 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 904.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 229.8 kB

  • Original 271.1 kB
  • After minification 236.7 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. Ellucian.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 229.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (58%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ellucian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ellucian.com accessibility score

78

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

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

ellucian.com best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ellucian.com 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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ellucian.com 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 Ellucian.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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