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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

admissions.grandview.edu

cluster04

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

756 ms

Page Rendered

152 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Admissions Grandview content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about admissions.grandview.edu

Grand View University offers college majors (bachelor’s and master’s degrees), athletics and campus activities. GVU is located in Des Moines, IA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.grandview.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 908 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admissions.grandview.edu performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.grandview.edu

136 ms

explore.aspx

112 ms

font-awesome.min.css

23 ms

styles-2016.css

206 ms

dropmenu_new.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Admissions.grandview.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (238 ms) belongs to the original domain Admissions.grandview.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 693.2 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

864.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Admissions.grandview.edu main page is 1.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 759.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 41.5 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 5.0 kB, which is 11% 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 33.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 759.6 kB
  • After minification 735.4 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. Admissions Grandview images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 533.0 kB

  • Original 628.5 kB
  • After minification 367.9 kB
  • After compression 95.5 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 533.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 102.6 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 88.6 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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. Admissions.grandview.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (46%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admissions Grandview. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.grandview.edu

admissions.grandview.edu

136 ms

explore.aspx

explore.aspx

112 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

23 ms

styles-2016.css

styles-2016.css

206 ms

dropmenu_new.css

dropmenu_new.css

66 ms

blank.css

blank.css

64 ms

nivo-slider-new.css

nivo-slider-new.css

87 ms

default.css

default.css

85 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

40 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

16 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

100 ms

master.js

master.js

36 ms

speechbubbles.css

speechbubbles.css

109 ms

jquery.reveal.js

jquery.reveal.js

102 ms

speechbubbles.js

speechbubbles.js

126 ms

ddaccordion.js

ddaccordion.js

155 ms

stylesModal.css

stylesModal.css

126 ms

jquery.reveal.js

jquery.reveal.js

119 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

221 ms

stylesAjax.css

stylesAjax.css

141 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

122 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

188 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

204 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.js

jquery.nivo.slider.js

204 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

187 ms

dropdown-script.js

dropdown-script.js

204 ms

background-repeat.jpg

background-repeat.jpg

46 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

46 ms

ga.js

ga.js

37 ms

iconFacebook.png

iconFacebook.png

91 ms

iconYouTube.png

iconYouTube.png

90 ms

iconTwitter.png

iconTwitter.png

93 ms

my_profile2.gif

my_profile2.gif

91 ms

states_countries.jpg

states_countries.jpg

92 ms

calculateIt.png

calculateIt.png

148 ms

student_center_ras_exterior.jpg

student_center_ras_exterior.jpg

134 ms

grand_central_576x267.jpg

grand_central_576x267.jpg

156 ms

langrock_suites_rotator.jpg

langrock_suites_rotator.jpg

156 ms

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jump_reslife_greenspace.jpg

134 ms

three_students_walking.jpg

three_students_walking.jpg

150 ms

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rasmussen_exterior.jpg

213 ms

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beth_FEP_student.jpg

200 ms

zach_tutor.jpg

zach_tutor.jpg

190 ms

male_nurse_brenda2.jpg

male_nurse_brenda2.jpg

214 ms

suites_lounge_rotator.jpg

suites_lounge_rotator.jpg

201 ms

wrestling_national_title_2016.jpg

wrestling_national_title_2016.jpg

237 ms

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evening_weekend.jpg

236 ms

gv_complete.jpg

gv_complete.jpg

238 ms

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__utm.gif

15 ms

grand_view_university.svg

grand_view_university.svg

193 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

39 ms

collect

collect

59 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

147 ms

speechdata.txt

speechdata.txt

124 ms

Accessibility Review

admissions.grandview.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

admissions.grandview.edu best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

admissions.grandview.edu SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Admissions.grandview.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Admissions.grandview.edu 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

admissions.grandview.edu

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