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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

admissions.siu.edu

SIU Undergraduate Admissions

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

933 ms

Page Rendered

297 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.siu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admissions.siu.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.siu.edu

203 ms

css

30 ms

base.css

239 ms

secondary.css

218 ms

jquery.min.js

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Admissions.siu.edu, 14% (10 requests) were made to Siu.edu and 13% (9 requests) were made to Asset.siu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (294 ms) relates to the external source Asset.siu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 258.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

846.0 kB

After Optimization

587.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Admissions.siu.edu main page is 846.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 489.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 36.5 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.4 kB, which is 15% 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 27.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 489.1 kB
  • After minification 472.5 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. Admissions SIU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 88.9 kB

  • Original 170.5 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 81.6 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 88.9 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 125.5 kB

  • Original 149.9 kB
  • After minification 132.9 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. Admissions.siu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (64%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admissions SIU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.siu.edu

admissions.siu.edu

203 ms

css

css

30 ms

base.css

base.css

239 ms

secondary.css

secondary.css

218 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

116 ms

mmenu.js

mmenu.js

187 ms

jquery.mmenu.all.css

jquery.mmenu.all.css

294 ms

responsive-nav.js

responsive-nav.js

136 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

170 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

83 ms

js2

js2

157 ms

up_loader.1.1.0.js

up_loader.1.1.0.js

63 ms

dpx.js

dpx.js

60 ms

students-walking.jpg

students-walking.jpg

213 ms

student-in-dining-hall.jpg

student-in-dining-hall.jpg

185 ms

architecture-student.jpg

architecture-student.jpg

144 ms

collaboration-in-library.jpg

collaboration-in-library.jpg

214 ms

professor.jpg

professor.jpg

168 ms

f-gray.png

f-gray.png

168 ms

t-gray.png

t-gray.png

182 ms

i-gray.png

i-gray.png

183 ms

siu-logo.png

siu-logo.png

136 ms

siu-logo-horizontal.png

siu-logo-horizontal.png

135 ms

virtual-tour.jpg

virtual-tour.jpg

229 ms

cse.js

cse.js

17 ms

open-arrow-gray.png

open-arrow-gray.png

169 ms

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117 ms

cse.js

cse.js

135 ms

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112 ms

white-dot.png

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124 ms

house.png

house.png

125 ms

maroon-arrows-down.gif

maroon-arrows-down.gif

124 ms

school-house.png

school-house.png

203 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

57 ms

up

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79 ms

6781.js

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42 ms

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57 ms

collect

collect

22 ms

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103 ms

35 ms

dpx

dpx

21 ms

collect

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87 ms

aol

aol

9 ms

universal_pixel.1.1.1.js

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10 ms

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99 ms

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41 ms

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51 ms

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57 ms

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27 ms

pixel

pixel

40 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

95 ms

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google_custom_search_watermark.gif

31 ms

search_btn.png

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39 ms

small-logo.png

small-logo.png

22 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

22 ms

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8 ms

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generic

10 ms

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13 ms

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13 ms

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4 ms

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5 ms

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11 ms

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10 ms

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39 ms

Accessibility Review

admissions.siu.edu accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

admissions.siu.edu best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

admissions.siu.edu SEO score

75

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

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 Admissions.siu.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 Admissions.siu.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

admissions.siu.edu

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