Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

admissions.pomona.edu

Admissions | Pomona College in Claremont, California - Pomona College

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

admissions.pomona.edu screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.pomona.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admissions.pomona.edu performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.pomona.edu

109 ms

256 ms

admissions

114 ms

css_Xl7Vrs2sAqJ4KhfDT9Wo1TLiXOelqQO5GM8MjAycMNw.css

104 ms

css_7qHwRiGSSOSwhcBAy58oUPKLTtG5LW8JdKaxPAxe8mk.css

205 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Admissions.pomona.edu, 88% (46 requests) were made to Pomona.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (762 ms) relates to the external source Pomona.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 836.2 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

829.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Admissions.pomona.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 660.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 45.5 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 35.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 660.4 kB
  • After minification 637.2 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. Admissions Pomona images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 237.7 kB

  • Original 335.9 kB
  • After minification 268.1 kB
  • After compression 98.3 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 237.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 539.7 kB

  • Original 623.9 kB
  • After minification 615.8 kB
  • After compression 84.2 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. Admissions.pomona.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 539.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (51%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admissions Pomona. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

admissions.pomona.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

admissions.pomona.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

admissions.pomona.edu SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Admissions.pomona.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Admissions.pomona.edu main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Admissions Pomona. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: