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

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

lmu.edu

Loyola Marymount University

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

922 ms

lmu.edu screenshot

About Website

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LMU is a top-ranked Catholic university rooted in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions. We offer a rigorous academic experience to ambitious students committed to lives of meaning and purpose.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lmu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lmu.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lmu.edu

267 ms

style-bower.css

80 ms

style.css

223 ms

svgstore.svg

111 ms

ACADEMICS.Lester_040914_0317.jpg

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Lmu.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Us1.siteimprove.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (725 ms) belongs to the original domain Lmu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 829.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

9.6 MB

After Optimization

8.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Lmu.edu main page is 9.6 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. 80% 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 8.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 84.9 kB
  • After minification 65.9 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 18.9 kB, which is 22% 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 73.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 94.0 kB

  • Original 8.7 MB
  • After minification 8.6 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. Lmu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 451.3 kB

  • Original 548.9 kB
  • After minification 333.4 kB
  • After compression 97.6 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 451.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 210.7 kB

  • Original 235.6 kB
  • After minification 192.4 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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. Lmu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 210.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (12%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lmu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lmu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

lmu.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

lmu.edu SEO score

92

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

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 Lmu.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 Lmu.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 Lmu. 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: