Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

allegany.edu

Homepage | Allegany College of Maryland

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

687 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Allegany.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 2.3 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

allegany.edu performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.672

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

allegany.edu

21 ms

allegany.edu

51 ms

bootstrap.min.css

24 ms

flickity.css

21 ms

acm-global-styles.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Allegany.edu, 6% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (642 ms) relates to the external source Wordpress.allegany.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 327.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

6.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Allegany.edu main page is 6.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 131.4 kB

  • Original 159.9 kB
  • After minification 133.6 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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 26.3 kB, which is 16% 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 131.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 123.9 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 6.0 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. Allegany images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 72.5 kB

  • Original 325.5 kB
  • After minification 324.9 kB
  • After compression 253.0 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 72.5 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (50%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Allegany. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

allegany.edu accessibility score

85

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

allegany.edu best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

allegany.edu SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Allegany.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 Allegany.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 Allegany. 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: