Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

sdsu.edu

Home | San Diego State University

Page Load Speed

80.1 sec in total

First Response

781 ms

Resources Loaded

34.2 sec

Page Rendered

45.1 sec

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About Website

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Since its founding in 1897, the university has grown to become a leading public research university, and a federally-designated Hispanic-serving Institution. Dr. Adela de la Torre is the current presi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sdsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 781 ms and then it took 79.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sdsu.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sdsu.edu

781 ms

llo2tmd.js

2763 ms

general_layout.css

132 ms

module_layouts.css

183 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

899 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Sdsu.edu, 44% (61 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.7 sec) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (11%)

Content Size

14.3 MB

After Optimization

12.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Sdsu.edu main page is 14.3 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 12.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 133.7 kB

  • Original 154.2 kB
  • After minification 144.9 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 133.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 393.8 kB

  • Original 12.7 MB
  • After minification 12.3 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. Sdsu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 694.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 884.0 kB
  • After compression 376.6 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 694.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 329.1 kB

  • Original 383.4 kB
  • After minification 279.5 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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. Sdsu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 329.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (49%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sdsu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sdsu.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

sdsu.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

sdsu.edu SEO score

99

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sdsu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sdsu.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 Sdsu. 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: