Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

seattleu.edu

Seattle University

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

467 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

450 ms

seattleu.edu screenshot

About Website

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Seattle University is a modern, progressive, and global Jesuit Catholic university in the heart of tech-heavy Seattle’s eclectic Capitol Hill neighborhood.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Seattleu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 467 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

seattleu.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

seattleu.edu

467 ms

bootstrap.min.css

18 ms

font-awesome.min.css

5 ms

slick.css

15 ms

slick-theme.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Seattleu.edu, 12% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (916 ms) belongs to the original domain Seattleu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 639.6 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Seattleu.edu main page is 2.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.4 kB

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 32.0 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.1 kB, which is 18% 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 30.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Seattle U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 156.8 kB

  • Original 213.6 kB
  • After minification 166.1 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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 156.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 413.4 kB

  • Original 476.6 kB
  • After minification 393.8 kB
  • After compression 63.2 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. Seattleu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 413.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (40%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Seattle U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

seattleu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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>).

Best Practices

seattleu.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

seattleu.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 Seattleu.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 Seattleu.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 Seattle U. 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: