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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

arts.wcu.edu

Western Carolina University - David Orr Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

907 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arts.wcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 131 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 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arts.wcu.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,560 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arts.wcu.edu

131 ms

585 ms

twe1glq.css

161 ms

owl.carousel.css

51 ms

global.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Arts.wcu.edu, 42% (33 requests) were made to Wcu.edu and 14% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (648 ms) relates to the external source Westerncarolina.blueconic.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 113.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arts.wcu.edu main page is 1.6 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 69.2 kB
  • After minification 63.5 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 56.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 223 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Arts Wcu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 113.6 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 77.2 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 36.5 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 55.4 kB
  • After minification 55.4 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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. Arts.wcu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.7 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (71%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arts Wcu. 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 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

arts.wcu.edu

arts.wcu.edu

131 ms

585 ms

twe1glq.css

twe1glq.css

161 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

51 ms

global.css

global.css

97 ms

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header-site-nav-v1-1.css

121 ms

featured.css

featured.css

128 ms

feature-story.css

feature-story.css

123 ms

slider.css

slider.css

124 ms

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118 ms

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128 ms

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grid-blocks.css

148 ms

text-image-intro.css

text-image-intro.css

149 ms

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149 ms

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footer-v1-2.css

150 ms

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landing-elements.css

155 ms

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153 ms

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104 ms

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176 ms

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98 ms

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165 ms

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175 ms

landing-stories.css

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175 ms

landing-page-stories.js

landing-page-stories.js

175 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

103 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

96 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

336 ms

global-v2.js

global-v2.js

335 ms

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ping

99 ms

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97 ms

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25 ms

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175 ms

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gtm.js

346 ms

fbevents.js

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300 ms

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343 ms

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gtm.js

gtm.js

204 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

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WCU-white-logo.svg

WCU-white-logo.svg

187 ms

school-art-design.jpg

school-art-design.jpg

313 ms

school-music.jpg

school-music.jpg

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Accessibility Review

arts.wcu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

arts.wcu.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

arts.wcu.edu SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Arts.wcu.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 Arts.wcu.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

arts.wcu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Arts Wcu. 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: