Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

digital.udayton.edu

Welcome to eCommons, the institutional repository at the University of Dayton

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

digital.udayton.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Digital U Dayton content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about digital.udayton.edu

<p>eCommons, a service of the University Libraries, is a space for content produced by our diverse campus community. It is a permanent multimedia archive of the University's continuous pursuit of...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digital.udayton.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 2.5 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

digital.udayton.edu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.947

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecommons.udayton.edu

132 ms

ecommons.udayton.edu

273 ms

yui-min.js

55 ms

jquery.min.js

49 ms

launch-d525bb0064d8.min.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Digital.udayton.edu, 34% (50 requests) were made to Ecommons.udayton.edu and 4% (6 requests) were made to Assets.bepress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (495 ms) relates to the external source Resources.bepress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 450.5 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

706.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Digital.udayton.edu main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 428.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 353.6 kB

  • Original 428.1 kB
  • After minification 365.9 kB
  • After compression 74.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 62.3 kB, which is 15% 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 353.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 240.8 kB
  • After minification 224.6 kB

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. Digital U Dayton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 49.9 kB

  • Original 412.8 kB
  • After minification 412.8 kB
  • After compression 362.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 49.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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. Digital.udayton.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.8 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 115 (85%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital U Dayton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 90 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

digital.udayton.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

digital.udayton.edu best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

digital.udayton.edu SEO score

97

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Digital.udayton.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 Digital.udayton.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 Digital U Dayton. 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: