Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% 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

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

admission.loyola.edu

Undergraduate Admission | Loyola University Maryland

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admission.loyola.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admission.loyola.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value45,070 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value56.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

undergraduate

32 ms

undergraduate

200 ms

uga_min.css

85 ms

fonts.css

222 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Admission.loyola.edu, 41% (36 requests) were made to Loyola.edu and 13% (11 requests) were made to Webbot.admithub.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Loyola.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Admission.loyola.edu main page is 1.4 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. 85% 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 836.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 70.0 kB
  • After minification 67.8 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 50.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 836.8 kB
  • After minification 831.1 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. Admission Loyola images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 78.4 kB
  • After minification 78.4 kB
  • After compression 68.3 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 10.1 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 424.3 kB
  • After minification 424.3 kB
  • After compression 392.7 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. Admission.loyola.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (51%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admission Loyola. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

admission.loyola.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

admission.loyola.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

admission.loyola.edu SEO score

97

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Admission.loyola.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 Admission.loyola.edu main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Admission Loyola. 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: