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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

fa.niu.edu

NIU Financial Aid and Scholarship Office | Division of Enrollment Management, Marketing and Communications | Northern Illinois University

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Fa NIU content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about fa.niu.edu

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fa.niu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fa.niu.edu performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fa.niu.edu

134 ms

index.shtml

112 ms

index.shtml

165 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

313 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

335 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Fa.niu.edu, 29% (26 requests) were made to Niu.edu and 11% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (628 ms) relates to the external source Snap.licdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

674.3 kB

After Optimization

606.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fa.niu.edu main page is 674.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 295.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 55.9 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 21.4 kB, which is 32% 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 55.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 284.5 kB
  • After minification 283.5 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. Fa NIU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 295.9 kB
  • After minification 295.8 kB
  • After compression 293.1 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. Fa.niu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (82%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fa NIU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fa.niu.edu

fa.niu.edu

134 ms

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index.shtml

112 ms

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index.shtml

165 ms

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Accessibility Review

fa.niu.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

fa.niu.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

fa.niu.edu SEO score

68

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Fa.niu.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 Fa.niu.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

fa.niu.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Fa NIU. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: