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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

shsu.edu

Sam Houston State University - Huntsville, TX

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

665 ms

shsu.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to shsu.edu homepage info - get ready to check Shsu best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about shsu.edu

Serving over 18,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, SHSU's Carnegie classification places it in the top 7% of U.S. higher education institutions. Located in Huntsville, Texas. Address: ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shsu.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,050 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.382

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shsu.edu

47 ms

shsu.edu

41 ms

all.css

56 ms

foundation.min.css

136 ms

foundation-icons.min.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Shsu.edu, 10% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (714 ms) belongs to the original domain Shsu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (27%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shsu.edu main page is 7.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 216.1 kB

  • Original 245.4 kB
  • After minification 226.0 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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 216.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 6.9 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Obviously, Shsu needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 228.4 kB
  • After minification 228.4 kB
  • After compression 222.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 52.3 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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. Shsu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (65%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shsu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shsu.edu

shsu.edu

47 ms

shsu.edu

shsu.edu

41 ms

all.css

all.css

56 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

136 ms

foundation-icons.min.css

foundation-icons.min.css

46 ms

2018-main.css

2018-main.css

131 ms

js

js

98 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

47 ms

what-input.min.js

what-input.min.js

50 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

134 ms

view

view

132 ms

view

view

205 ms

2018-main.js

2018-main.js

127 ms

element.js

element.js

83 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

271 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

332 ms

5y7bpbg6it

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419 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

400 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

446 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

399 ms

cse.js

cse.js

390 ms

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658 ms

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714 ms

shsu.svg

shsu.svg

270 ms

shsu.png

shsu.png

272 ms

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a-member-of-the-texas-state-university-system.png

272 ms

siteanalyze_16094.js

siteanalyze_16094.js

454 ms

opensans-regular.woff

opensans-regular.woff

21 ms

foundation-icons.woff

foundation-icons.woff

22 ms

montserrat-bold.woff

montserrat-bold.woff

82 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

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73 ms

collect

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109 ms

js

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104 ms

destination

destination

291 ms

collect

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319 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

343 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

400 ms

default.css

default.css

401 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

66 ms

adsct

adsct

375 ms

adsct

adsct

361 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

83 ms

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;ord=894839327

18 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

113 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

56 ms

branding.png

branding.png

33 ms

destination

destination

72 ms

scevent.min.js

scevent.min.js

158 ms

destination

destination

137 ms

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86 ms

Accessibility Review

shsu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

shsu.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

SEO Factors

shsu.edu SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Shsu.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 Shsu.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

shsu.edu

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