Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

ohio.edu

Ohio University

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Ohio University offers more than 250 programs, including undergraduate and graduate-level study with outstanding professors. At OHIO, you’ll gain knowledge, skills, and experiences for career success.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ohio.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ohio.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,190 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ohio.edu

39 ms

gtm.js

121 ms

css_Ov4edFHMhDE_M3w20T5ki2w0hL6Lr78JofThAn1LLI8.css

21 ms

css_m7ekPEyw6OPE_km7z8gbc_GKoOoSqEj00cyt_aukHTk.css

56 ms

xwo2zaa.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Ohio.edu, 22% (20 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 9% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (984 ms) relates to the external source Analytics.tiktok.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 268.6 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Ohio.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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 119.3 kB

  • Original 154.1 kB
  • After minification 139.7 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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 119.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 109.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Ohio images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 429.9 kB
  • After minification 429.9 kB
  • After compression 426.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 130.6 kB
  • After minification 129.7 kB
  • After compression 94.1 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. Ohio.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.5 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (65%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ohio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ohio.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ohio.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ohio.edu SEO score

98

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ohio.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 Ohio.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 Ohio. 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: