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
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

scholarships.usu.edu

Utah State University Scholarships | USU

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

203 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholarships.usu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 2.5 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

scholarships.usu.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.399

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scholarships.usu.edu

1032 ms

css

61 ms

classic-full.min.css

401 ms

prettyPhoto.css

56 ms

jquery.min.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Scholarships.usu.edu, 14% (5 requests) were made to Usu.edu and 14% (5 requests) were made to Templates.usu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Templates.usu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 185.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

789.3 kB

After Optimization

603.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Scholarships.usu.edu main page is 789.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 509.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 3.1 kB, which is 13% 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 19.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 509.0 kB
  • After minification 471.4 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. Scholarships USU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 127.3 kB

  • Original 214.2 kB
  • After minification 193.9 kB
  • After compression 86.9 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 127.3 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 41.6 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 40.0 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. Scholarships.usu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (40%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholarships USU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scholarships.usu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scholarships.usu.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scholarships.usu.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 Scholarships.usu.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 Scholarships.usu.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 Scholarships USU. 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: