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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 28 October 202636 issues · 104 checks

This review found 36 issues worth fixing on muih.edu, 14 of them high impact, across 104 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.2 s1.6 sJul 18Oct 241.8 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Jul 18, 20262.1 s
Jul 25, 20262.0 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.7 s
Aug 15, 20261.7 s
Aug 22, 20261.7 s
Aug 29, 20261.7 s
Sep 5, 20261.8 s
Sep 12, 20261.7 s
Sep 19, 20261.7 s
Sep 26, 20261.7 s
Oct 3, 20261.7 s
Oct 10, 20261.8 s
Oct 17, 20261.8 s
Oct 24, 20261.8 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
172 ms66 msJul 18Oct 24153 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Jul 18, 202678 ms
Jul 25, 202687 ms
Aug 1, 202688 ms
Aug 8, 202691 ms
Aug 15, 202696 ms
Aug 22, 202696 ms
Aug 29, 202696 ms
Sep 5, 202696 ms
Sep 12, 202695 ms
Sep 19, 2026104 ms
Sep 26, 2026128 ms
Oct 3, 2026147 ms
Oct 10, 2026160 ms
Oct 17, 2026157 ms
Oct 24, 2026153 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

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Speed

7 to fix54
  • Improve image delivery

    2.5 s · 1.0 MB

    9 images could be 1.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.6 s

    16 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.6 s.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.3 s · 232 KiB

    About 232 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.3 s faster on a phone.

  • 3,719 HTML elements

    The page has 3,719 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 54

    54/100

    Your mobile performance score is 54 (desktop: 68). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 124 KiB

    About 124 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 2.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 600 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Accessibe Accessibility Overlay and go-ndmu.org and others), adding 639 KiB and 330 ms of main-thread time.

  • 9 long tasks on the main thread

    9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 160 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    10 KiB

    2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (10 KiB).

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

  • Minify CSS

    4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Minify JavaScript

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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  • Server response: 10 ms

    10 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix100
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 33.4 s

    33.4 s

    Your largest element takes 33.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Tab Image”.

  • Time to Interactive: 35.0 s

    35.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 35.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.3 s

    5.3 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.2 s

    10.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 88% slower for real visitors

    +88%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 78 ms to 153 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 854 ms

    854 ms

    Real visitors wait 854 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • 2 images without width and height

    2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

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  • Real-user LCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 171 ms

    171 ms

    Real visitors wait 171 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 10% faster for real visitors

    -10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 1.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Total Blocking Time: 179 ms

    179 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 179 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 12.5 MB in 88 requests

    12.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 12.5 MB in 88 requests on a phone: images 11.3 MB (35), scripts 603 KiB (17) and fonts 409 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 7 images over 500 KB

    7 images weigh 5.9 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 7 images far larger than shown

    3.9 MB

    7 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 2024-Fall-Photoshoot-Selects-18.jpg at 1,920 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 3.9 MB.

  • 14 images in older formats

    14 images (7.7 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • 9 images below the first screen load straight away

    9 images further down the page (5.5 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 3.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.54 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.54 g of CO₂e: 424.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9796
  • 11 tap targets too small

    11 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings should not be empty (2 elements)

    Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 35 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 51 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 8580
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 3 H1 headlines

    There are 3 <h1> headlines (“Creating a better world starts with creating the …”, “Start your journey today.” and “the world needs the best you”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 6 links with vague text

    6 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 1,273 internal links, 65 external

    The homepage links to 1,273 pages on muih.edu and 65 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Title: 40 characters

    Your title is a healthy 40 characters: “Home - Notre Dame of Maryland University”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://ndm.edu/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://ndm.edu/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

  • Opted out of AI training for 4 crawlers

    robots.txt blocks GPTBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

2 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (4,799 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 15 pages without a meta description

    /admissions/visit-campus, /admissions/request-information, /admissions/apply-now, /giving, /directory and /about-us and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    /giving took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 193 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    14 of 15 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix86
  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • No clickjacking protection

    Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • 2 redirects before the homepage

    Opening https://muih.edu goes through 2 redirects before the homepage loads.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (ndm.edu).

  • Valid certificate (39 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for muih.edu and is valid for another 39 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://muih.edu redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 60 links work

    All 60 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 20 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    ndm.edu has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

Content and conversion

2 to fix88
  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 8 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 852 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 852 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “learn more”.

  • 61 calls to action

    The homepage has 61 calls to action, for example “Request Info”, “Apply” and “Contact Us”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Email authentication

1 to fix70
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be muih.edu is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 70/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

2 checks passed
  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:hobsonsmail.com include:aspmx.pardot.com a:mx.crm.orionondemand.com m…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “selector2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 2 cookies set on arrival

    2

    Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 8 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 8 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.3.

Stack

CMS
WordPress 3.7.1
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
WP Engine

Company

Employees
247
Founded
1974

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