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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

carthage.edu

Carthage College: Top Private College

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

891 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carthage.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carthage.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,580 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carthage.edu

30 ms

www.carthage.edu

54 ms

yett

37 ms

ping

37 ms

%5Clivewhale%5Ctheme%5Ccore%5Cstyles%5Cfrontend.rev.1679432859.css

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Carthage.edu, 7% (6 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source App.heyhalda.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 615.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Carthage.edu main page is 4.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 81.4 kB

  • Original 104.7 kB
  • After minification 94.7 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. 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 81.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Carthage images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 501.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 853.3 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 501.9 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (42%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carthage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

carthage.edu accessibility score

98

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

Best Practices

carthage.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

carthage.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Carthage.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 Carthage.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 Carthage. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: