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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

alcorn.edu

Alcorn State University - Alcorn State University

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

994 ms

Page Rendered

231 ms

alcorn.edu screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alcorn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alcorn.edu performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.267

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alcorn.edu

70 ms

www.alcorn.edu

151 ms

dc.js

43 ms

si_behaviors-c.js

24 ms

si_onload.js

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Alcorn.edu, 5% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (224 ms) relates to the external source S.ytimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 628.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alcorn.edu main page is 1.7 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 885.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 45.1 kB
  • After minification 39.0 kB
  • After compression 9.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.1 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 35.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 47.2 kB

  • Original 885.9 kB
  • After minification 838.7 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Alcorn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 203.7 kB

  • Original 318.1 kB
  • After minification 309.5 kB
  • After compression 114.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 203.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 341.6 kB

  • Original 402.9 kB
  • After minification 315.6 kB
  • After compression 61.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Alcorn.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 341.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (64%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alcorn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alcorn.edu

alcorn.edu

70 ms

www.alcorn.edu

www.alcorn.edu

151 ms

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43 ms

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17 ms

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48 ms

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19 ms

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19 ms

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20 ms

base.css

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21 ms

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26 ms

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26 ms

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26 ms

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27 ms

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32 ms

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28 ms

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31 ms

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40 ms

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18 ms

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15 ms

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14 ms

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19 ms

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16 ms

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157 ms

bg-body.gif

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59 ms

bg-container.png

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70 ms

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59 ms

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60 ms

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59 ms

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60 ms

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61 ms

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61 ms

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59 ms

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61 ms

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63 ms

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61 ms

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79 ms

Accessibility Review

alcorn.edu accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

alcorn.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

alcorn.edu SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alcorn.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Alcorn.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

alcorn.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alcorn. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: