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muih.edu website review
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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
83BClosest competitors among SaaS websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.8 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 153 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
Speed
Improve image delivery
2.5 s · 1.0 MB9 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 s16 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 KiBAbout 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
54/100Your mobile performance score is 54 (desktop: 68). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 124 KiBAbout 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 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Use efficient cache lifetimes
10 KiB2 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 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Minify JavaScript
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
1 checks passed
Server response: 10 ms
10 msYour server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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 sYour 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 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 35.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 5.3 s
5.3 sThe 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 sVisually, 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 msReal 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.
7 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal 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 msReal visitors wait 171 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal 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 msScripts block the page for only 179 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 12.5 MB in 88 requests
12.5 MBYour 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 MB7 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 gBy 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
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.
2 checks passed
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
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
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
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
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
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.
5 checks passed
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
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
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
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before 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
2Opening 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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