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samuelmerritt.edu

Samuel Merritt University | Transforming healthcare. Transforming communities.

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Samuel Merritt University, based in Oakland, California, offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in the health sciences and provides enriching real-world learning opportunities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Samuelmerritt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

samuelmerritt.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

samuelmerritt.edu

1004 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

218 ms

align.module.css

227 ms

autocomplete-loading.module.css

228 ms

fieldgroup.module.css

224 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Samuelmerritt.edu, 6% (9 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Samuelmerritt.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (28%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Samuelmerritt.edu main page is 4.9 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. 85% 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 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 91.5 kB
  • After minification 88.0 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. 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 73.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 182.8 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Samuel Merritt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 382.1 kB

  • Original 574.7 kB
  • After minification 548.4 kB
  • After compression 192.5 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 382.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 748.0 kB

  • Original 880.8 kB
  • After minification 782.0 kB
  • After compression 132.8 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. Samuelmerritt.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 748.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 96 (64%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Samuel Merritt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 68 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

samuelmerritt.edu SEO score

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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 Samuelmerritt.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 Samuelmerritt.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 Samuel Merritt. 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: