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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

gustavus.edu

Gustavus Adolphus College

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Gustavus content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gustavus.edu

Gustavus Adolphus College is a church-related, residential liberal arts college firmly rooted in its Swedish and Lutheran heritage.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gustavus.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 2.8 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

gustavus.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gustavus.edu

151 ms

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268 ms

css2

32 ms

style-77fea397e77a2be8b465fc21c4f51368.css

314 ms

banner-2e6a641d8a0df0d710f4293f089bd355.css

356 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Gustavus.edu, 36% (20 requests) were made to Static2.gac.edu and 13% (7 requests) were made to Static3.gac.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (624 ms) belongs to the original domain Gustavus.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gustavus.edu main page is 1.8 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 60.1 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 46.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 53.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Gustavus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 82.8 kB
  • After minification 82.7 kB
  • After compression 75.7 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 83.8 kB
  • After minification 83.8 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. Gustavus.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (66%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gustavus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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gustavus.edu

151 ms

gustavus.edu

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268 ms

css2

css2

32 ms

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style-77fea397e77a2be8b465fc21c4f51368.css

314 ms

banner-2e6a641d8a0df0d710f4293f089bd355.css

banner-2e6a641d8a0df0d710f4293f089bd355.css

356 ms

require.2.3.6.js

require.2.3.6.js

239 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

84 ms

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107 ms

student_life_06.jpg

student_life_06.jpg

269 ms

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214 ms

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269 ms

student_life_04.jpg

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622 ms

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615 ms

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621 ms

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student_life_01.jpg

619 ms

student_life_03.jpg

student_life_03.jpg

624 ms

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620 ms

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initiatives_013.jpg

622 ms

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623 ms

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46 ms

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jquery.min.js

63 ms

position.js

position.js

241 ms

widget.js

widget.js

240 ms

menu.js

menu.js

234 ms

effect.js

effect.js

239 ms

effect-highlight.js

effect-highlight.js

239 ms

autocomplete.js

autocomplete.js

575 ms

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59 ms

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60 ms

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175 ms

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198 ms

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199 ms

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558 ms

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132 ms

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496 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

494 ms

js

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177 ms

scevent.min.js

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466 ms

apolloevents.js

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466 ms

ping

ping

466 ms

fbevents.js

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166 ms

events.js

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462 ms

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62 ms

keycode.js

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342 ms

safe-active-element.js

safe-active-element.js

341 ms

unique-id.js

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345 ms

version.js

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345 ms

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336 ms

jquery.color.js

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341 ms

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44 ms

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55 ms

Accessibility Review

gustavus.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

gustavus.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

SEO Factors

gustavus.edu SEO score

99

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 Gustavus.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 Gustavus.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Gustavus. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: