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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

alextech.edu

Alexandria Technical & Community College

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

927 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

146 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alextech.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 927 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alextech.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.221

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alextech.edu

927 ms

Ext-All.css

144 ms

xtheme-slate.css

75 ms

global.css

107 ms

Menu.ATCCHome.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Alextech.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (927 ms) belongs to the original domain Alextech.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (65%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alextech.edu main page is 2.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 309.8 kB

  • Original 429.6 kB
  • After minification 424.7 kB
  • After compression 119.8 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 309.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 389.3 kB
  • After minification 374.9 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. Alextech images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 478.3 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 1.4 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 145.4 kB

  • Original 175.0 kB
  • After minification 164.9 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. Alextech.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 145.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (60%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alextech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alextech.edu

alextech.edu

927 ms

Ext-All.css

Ext-All.css

144 ms

xtheme-slate.css

xtheme-slate.css

75 ms

global.css

global.css

107 ms

Menu.ATCCHome.css

Menu.ATCCHome.css

80 ms

ext-base.js

ext-base.js

108 ms

ext-all.js

ext-all.js

331 ms

swfobject2.js

swfobject2.js

119 ms

livesearch.js

livesearch.js

157 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

197 ms

Homepage.css

Homepage.css

163 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

192 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

70 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

71 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

133 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

98 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

98 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

99 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

107 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

131 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

138 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

143 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

141 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

173 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

166 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

172 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

174 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

188 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

200 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

294 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

292 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

267 ms

HomeBackground.png

HomeBackground.png

89 ms

1pxclear.gif

1pxclear.gif

88 ms

Homepage_Button_Ask_ATCC_Info.png

Homepage_Button_Ask_ATCC_Info.png

45 ms

Homepage_Button_Apply_Now.png

Homepage_Button_Apply_Now.png

87 ms

homepage-button-campus-visit.png

homepage-button-campus-visit.png

86 ms

discover-decide-ad.png

discover-decide-ad.png

105 ms

treaties-thumb.png

treaties-thumb.png

88 ms

senior-college-thumb.png

senior-college-thumb.png

88 ms

VITA_Tax_Prep_Thumb.png

VITA_Tax_Prep_Thumb.png

89 ms

occupational-grant-thumb.png

occupational-grant-thumb.png

105 ms

ATCCBanner.jpg

ATCCBanner.jpg

63 ms

go.png

go.png

62 ms

QuickLinksBackground.png

QuickLinksBackground.png

84 ms

mnsculogo.png

mnsculogo.png

52 ms

index.html

index.html

53 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

39 ms

juicebox.js

juicebox.js

110 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

1pxclear.gif

1pxclear.gif

43 ms

trigger.gif

trigger.gif

52 ms

text-bg.gif

text-bg.gif

43 ms

theme.css

theme.css

43 ms

Accessibility Review

alextech.edu accessibility score

97

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

alextech.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

SEO Factors

alextech.edu SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Alextech.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 Alextech.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

alextech.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alextech. 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: