scranton.edu website review

About 713 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 1.8 s of main-thread work and 1.1 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

reddit costs a phone 1.2 s of main-thread work and 27 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Your mobile performance score is 37. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 8.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 5.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, reddit and hideousplay.com and others), adding 1.9 MB and 4.2 s of main-thread time.

52 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (613 KiB).

6 images could be 544 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 392 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

hideousplay.com costs a phone 349 ms of main-thread work and 61 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Facebook costs a phone 320 ms of main-thread work and 281 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 300 ms).

About 126 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 34 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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.

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.

Your largest element takes 15.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Fall trees frame a sunny University of Scranton campus”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 27.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.7 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 8.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 216 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 162 ms to 239 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors wait 879 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

The first text or image appears after 1.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 4.1 MB in 217 requests on a phone: scripts 2.2 MB (47), images 1.4 MB (42) and fonts 290 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

9 images (779 KiB) 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.

3 images further down the page (295 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.16 g of CO₂e: 138.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

34 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 42 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (4 elements).

Your title is only 29 characters: “University of Scranton | Home”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

There are 4 <h1> headlines (“About Us”, “Student Life” and “Robert S. and Marilyn A. Weiss Hall”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 72 pages on scranton.edu and 80 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no https://www.scranton.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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 44 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://idxgm.rtactivate.com/tagid/159868/?device=4ab576bc-fe3d-4d92-9652-a1050ba66440&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scranton.edu%2F.

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

1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “$(...).acalogWidgetize is not a function”.

4 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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.

Social proof on the homepage: 2 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

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

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 729 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar and 7 mores (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.

Opening the homepage sets 40 cookies (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 51 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.