Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

wscal.edu

Home - Westminster Seminary California

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

861 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

301 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wscal.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 861 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wscal.edu performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wscal.edu

861 ms

css

55 ms

sbz2ots.js

213 ms

global.css

9 ms

layout.css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Wscal.edu, 7% (4 requests) were made to and 4% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (861 ms) belongs to the original domain Wscal.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 456.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

6.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Wscal.edu main page is 6.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 61.7 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 8.4 kB, which is 12% 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 59.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 299.9 kB

  • Original 6.5 MB
  • After minification 6.2 MB

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. Wscal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 38 B

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 96.7 kB

  • Original 116.6 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. Wscal.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (67%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wscal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wscal.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

wscal.edu best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wscal.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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wscal.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 Wscal.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 description is not detected on the main page of Wscal. 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: