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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

financialaid.ku.edu

Home | Financial Aid & Scholarships

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

855 ms

Page Rendered

229 ms

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About Website

Visit financialaid.ku.edu now to see the best up-to-date Financial Aid Ku content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about financialaid.ku.edu

The KU Financial Aid & Scholarships staff is here to inform and advise students as they prepare for and pursue successful careers as Jayhawks.

Visit financialaid.ku.edu

Key Findings

We analyzed Financialaid.ku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

financialaid.ku.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.406

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

financialaid.ku.edu

222 ms

affordability.ku.edu

151 ms

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37 ms

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68 ms

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66 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Financialaid.ku.edu, 39% (24 requests) were made to Webmedia.ku.edu and 34% (21 requests) were made to Affordability.ku.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (242 ms) relates to the external source 25livepub.collegenet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 329.4 kB (50%)

Content Size

656.8 kB

After Optimization

327.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Financialaid.ku.edu main page is 656.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 321.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 59.0 kB

  • Original 74.3 kB
  • After minification 70.4 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 59.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 190.2 kB
  • After minification 185.7 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. Financial Aid Ku images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 219.2 kB

  • Original 321.8 kB
  • After minification 282.5 kB
  • After compression 102.5 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 219.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 46.7 kB

  • Original 70.6 kB
  • After minification 68.2 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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. Financialaid.ku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (73%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Financial Aid Ku. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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222 ms

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151 ms

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37 ms

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68 ms

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66 ms

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72 ms

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68 ms

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64 ms

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71 ms

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97 ms

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93 ms

modernizr.min.js

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5 ms

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124 ms

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122 ms

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123 ms

spuds.js

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242 ms

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67 ms

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121 ms

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66 ms

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91 ms

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136 ms

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135 ms

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139 ms

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135 ms

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136 ms

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150 ms

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135 ms

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Accessibility Review

financialaid.ku.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

financialaid.ku.edu best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

financialaid.ku.edu SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Financialaid.ku.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 Financialaid.ku.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

financialaid.ku.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Financial Aid Ku. 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: