rvu.edu website review

8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.

Your mobile performance score is 88. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 65 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.

2 images could be 424 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

About 23 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 73 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

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

2 third-party services load with your homepage (Adobe TypeKit and Google Fonts), adding 47 KiB and 0 ms of main-thread time.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 96 ms to 176 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

The first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below. Most of its time is element render delay (2.3 s).

Visually, the page fills in at 4.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example colorado-014-10012024-1.webp at 1,920 px wide, shown at 75 px. Resized copies would save about 376 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.21 g of CO₂e: 24.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

The homepage links to 226 pages on rvu.edu and 28 external pages.

There is no https://www.rvu.edu/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.

https://www.rvu.edu/admissions/international-scholar-success and https://www.rvu.edu/doctor-of-veterinary-medicine have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://www.rvu.edu/financial-aid, https://www.rvu.edu/financial-aid/financial-wellness, https://www.rvu.edu/financial-aid/institutional-financial-aid-data-and-student-default-rates and https://www.rvu.edu/financial-aid/scholarships took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 81 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 of 17 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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

The homepage carries about 1,232 words of visible text.

Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.