Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

server20.samford.edu

Samford University | Birmingham, Alabama

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

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About Website

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Samford University is Alabama's top-ranked private university. Located in suburban Birmingham, Samford has more than 5,700 students studying in 31 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Server20.samford.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

server20.samford.edu performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.162

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

server20.samford.edu

170 ms

www.samford.edu

296 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

master.js

123 ms

styles.css

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Server20.samford.edu, 74% (26 requests) were made to Samford.edu and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (555 ms) relates to the external source Samford.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Server20.samford.edu main page is 1.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 33.5 kB
  • After minification 30.6 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 25.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Server 20 Samford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 104.9 kB
  • After compression 61.4 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 45.0 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. Server20.samford.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Server 20 Samford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

server20.samford.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

server20.samford.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

SEO Factors

server20.samford.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Server20.samford.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 Server20.samford.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 Server 20 Samford. 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: