Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% 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

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

alumni.mnsu.edu

Alumni, Donors and Friends | Minnesota State University, Mankato

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

alumni.mnsu.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alumni.mnsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alumni.mnsu.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.191

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alumni.mnsu.edu

196 ms

alumni.mnsu.edu

217 ms

alumni-portal

134 ms

alumni-portal

402 ms

css

307 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Alumni.mnsu.edu, 49% (39 requests) were made to Mnsu.edu and 6% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Mnsu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Alumni.mnsu.edu main page is 2.1 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 44.9 kB

  • Original 54.9 kB
  • After minification 42.6 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 12.3 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 44.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 154 B

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Alumni Mnsu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 139.3 kB
  • After minification 139.3 kB
  • After compression 132.1 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

-32%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 61.5 kB
  • After minification 61.5 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Alumni.mnsu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.8 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (64%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alumni Mnsu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alumni.mnsu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

alumni.mnsu.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

alumni.mnsu.edu SEO score

92

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

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