stu.edu website review

15 images could be 3.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 6.9 s faster on a phone.

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

About 269 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

About 138 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 56. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

61 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 713 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 1,671 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Other Google APIs/SDKs and adtrafficquality.google and others), adding 468 KiB and 339 ms of main-thread time.

34 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 182 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

Polyfills for old browsers add 17 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (15 KiB).

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.

Your largest element takes 24.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Pursue Excellence BE GIANT!”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 25.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

Visually, the page fills in at 10.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 13.5 MB in 148 requests on a phone: media 8.1 MB (1), images 4.2 MB (30) and scripts 746 KiB (49). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images weigh 1.1 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

11 images further down the page (3.0 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

5 images (1.6 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.83 g of CO₂e: 459.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 34 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your meta description is 166 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 185 pages on stu.edu and 74 external pages.

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

Your homepage links to https://www.stu.edu/confirm, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

https://www.stu.edu/request-info, https://www.stu.edu/visit, https://www.stu.edu/global, https://www.stu.edu/programs and https://www.stu.edu/faculty have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 85 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://www.stu.edu/.

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

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 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

The homepage has only about 231 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics 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.

Opening the homepage sets 9 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 14 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.