Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

huntington.edu

Huntington University | Top-Rated Christian University in Indiana

Page Load Speed

16.2 sec in total

First Response

122 ms

Resources Loaded

15.5 sec

Page Rendered

536 ms

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About Website

Visit huntington.edu now to see the best up-to-date Huntington content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about huntington.edu

Huntington University is a private, four-year, liberal arts Christian university in Indiana offering more than 70 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Huntington.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 122 ms and then it took 16.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

huntington.edu performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

huntington.edu

122 ms

www.huntington.edu

14568 ms

css

61 ms

css

77 ms

site.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Huntington.edu, 9% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (14.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Huntington.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 756.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Huntington.edu main page is 3.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 12.5 kB, which is 27% 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 37.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 247.3 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, Huntington needs image optimization as it can save up to 247.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 181.8 kB

  • Original 292.8 kB
  • After minification 287.9 kB
  • After compression 111.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 181.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 289.7 kB

  • Original 348.7 kB
  • After minification 319.4 kB
  • After compression 59.1 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. Huntington.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 289.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (29%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Huntington. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

huntington.edu accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

huntington.edu best practices score

85

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

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

huntington.edu SEO score

82

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 Huntington.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 Huntington.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 Huntington. 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: