Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

ysu.edu

YSU | Home

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

177 ms

ysu.edu screenshot

About Website

Visit ysu.edu now to see the best up-to-date YSU content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ysu.edu

Youngstown State University is an Ohio urban research university with a wide variety higher education programs and majors. Pursue your career goals at YSU.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ysu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ysu.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ysu.edu

248 ms

layout.css

70 ms

css

24 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

7 ms

jquery-ui.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Ysu.edu, 8% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.yoshki.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (590 ms) relates to the external source Yoshki.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 479.0 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Ysu.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 915.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 39.3 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.5 kB, which is 14% 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 34.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 62.2 kB

  • Original 915.9 kB
  • After minification 853.7 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. YSU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 310.1 kB

  • Original 531.6 kB
  • After minification 529.9 kB
  • After compression 221.4 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 310.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 82.2 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Ysu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (53%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of YSU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ysu.edu accessibility score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

ysu.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ysu.edu SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Ysu.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 Ysu.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 YSU. 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: