www.usu.edu speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:12 UTC. Grade C (71/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.usu.edu/

20 October 2026 at 15:12 UTC · Free test · report pt_ea6b193af82e
Grade
C
71/100
Performance65/100
Structure80/100

12 audit(s) passed, 4 need work

First byte (TTFB)348 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded5.47 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight2.74 MBcompressed transfer
HTML document11.4 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3nginx/1.30.6
Third-party59.2 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 74 ms 21%
  • TCP connect 67 ms 19%
  • Server wait 208 ms 60%

Measured on the connection that fetched the HTML. Every other request on the page waits for the end of this bar before it can start.

How this page compares

First bytefaster than 65% of 4,999 pages tested here348 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightheavier than 87% of 4,999 pages tested here2.74 MB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedslower than 92% of 4,999 pages tested here5.47 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends more requests than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here26 against a median of 26

Every report published here is in this comparison, so it is a reference population of pages tested from one server - not a benchmark of the whole web.

What these numbers mean

  • The first byte arrived in 348 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 2.74 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 96% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.

Fix first: Image delivery and format - Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.

Read on one shared server, not a visitor's phone: use it to compare pages against each other, not as a promise about every connection. We fix what these tests find.

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Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 18 requests
2.63 MB 96%
Javascript 6 requests
97.8 KB 3%
Html 1 request
191 B 0%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 2.74 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Image delivery and format

high impact

6 image(s) over 200 KB and 10 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.

Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.

Total page weight

high impact

The page transfers 2.74 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 11.4 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

Avoid extra redirects

medium impact

1 redirect hop(s) before the page load started, each one a full round trip before the first byte.

Fix: Link to the canonical URL (and make sure http, the apex domain and www all point at it) so no visitor pays a redirect first.

Strict-Transport-Security

low impact

HSTS is not set, so the first visit on a hostile network can still be downgraded to HTTP.

Fix: Send Strict-Transport-Security with a max-age of at least six months. Add includeSubDomains once every subdomain is HTTPS.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

JAVASCRIPTajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js
5.12 s
JAVASCRIPTwww.usu.edu/assets/bs4/lib/moment/moment.min-2.29.…
5.12 s
JAVASCRIPTwww.usu.edu/assets/bs4/js/init.1.2.js
5.12 s
JAVASCRIPTkit.fontawesome.com/f0188d4897.js
5.12 s
IMAGESwww.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/960/apply-now-2…
5.12 s
IMAGESwww.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/360/fafsa-banne…
5.12 s
IMAGESwww.usu.edu/assets/bs4/images/logos/utah-state-log…
5.12 s
IMAGESwww.usu.edu/assets/bs4/images/logos/u-state-logo.svg
5.12 s
IMAGESwww.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/1600/25_USU_Agg…
5.12 s
IMAGESwww.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/414/apply-now-2…
5.12 s

Each bar is one request's own response time, scaled to the slowest. Assets were fetched in parallel, so the bars overlap in real time rather than stacking. first party third party

RequestTypeStatusTimeSize
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js 3rd partyjavascript2005.12 s30.3 KB
https://www.usu.edu/assets/bs4/lib/moment/moment.min-2.29.3.jsjavascript2005.12 s18.6 KB
https://www.usu.edu/assets/bs4/js/init.1.2.jsjavascript2005.12 s16.2 KB
https://kit.fontawesome.com/f0188d4897.js 3rd partyjavascript2005.12 s5.6 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/960/apply-now-2025.jpgimages2005.12 s134.7 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/360/fafsa-banner.jpgimages2005.12 s41.5 KB
https://www.usu.edu/assets/bs4/images/logos/utah-state-logo.svgimages2005.12 s5.1 KB
https://www.usu.edu/assets/bs4/images/logos/u-state-logo.svgimages2005.12 s4.0 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/1600/25_USU_Aggie_Advantage.jpgimages2005.12 s182.8 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/414/apply-now-2025.jpgimages2005.12 s39.2 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/540/apply-now-2025.jpgimages200990 ms58.4 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/1024/fafsa-banner.jpgimages200988 ms257.6 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/720/apply-now-2025.jpgimages200988 ms86.7 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/1024/apply-now-2025.jpgimages200986 ms146.6 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/1600/apply-now-2025.jpgimages200982 ms277.1 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/1280/apply-now-2025.jpgimages200982 ms201.4 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/414/fafsa-banner.jpgimages200982 ms56.6 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/1280/fafsa-banner.jpgimages200981 ms361.0 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/540/fafsa-banner.jpgimages200977 ms88.9 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/720/fafsa-banner.jpgimages200976 ms141.7 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/1600/fafsa-banner.jpgimages200971 ms374.5 KB
https://www.usu.edu/modules/images/banners/960/fafsa-banner.jpgimages200971 ms234.1 KB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WPLCQ7L 3rd partyhtml200971 ms191 B
https://www.usu.edu/assets/bs4/lib/lazysizes/lazysizes.min.jsjavascript200960 ms4.0 KB
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js 3rd partyjavascript200944 ms23.1 KB
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