Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

seminary.ashland.edu

Home - Ashland Theological Seminary

Page Load Speed

592 ms in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

302 ms

Page Rendered

192 ms

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About Website

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Ashland Theological Seminary integrates theological education with Christ-centered transformation as it equips men and women for ministry in the church and the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Seminary.ashland.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 494 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

seminary.ashland.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value46.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,120 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value75.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

seminary.ashland.edu

98 ms

main.css

18 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

28 ms

font-awesome.min.css

6 ms

jquery.min.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Seminary.ashland.edu, 6% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (128 ms) belongs to the original domain Seminary.ashland.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 109.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

996.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Seminary.ashland.edu main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 17.2 kB, which is 38% 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 37.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 55.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 966.9 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. Seminary Ashland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Seminary.ashland.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (22%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

21

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

Accessibility Review

seminary.ashland.edu accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

seminary.ashland.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

seminary.ashland.edu SEO score

86

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

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 Seminary.ashland.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 Seminary.ashland.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 Seminary Ashland. 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: