Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

explore.ecpi.edu

Accredited, Military Friendly and Affordable! | ECPI University

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Explore.ecpi.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

explore.ecpi.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,690 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.598

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

explore.ecpi.edu

66 ms

explore.ecpi.edu

28 ms

ecpi-university.js

44 ms

style.css

15 ms

bootstrap.min.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Explore.ecpi.edu, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.aspnetcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (377 ms) relates to the external source App.leadsrx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

494.1 kB

After Optimization

410.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Explore.ecpi.edu main page is 494.1 kB. 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. Javascripts take 239.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 55.5 kB

  • Original 65.0 kB
  • After minification 55.2 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 9.8 kB, which is 15% 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 55.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 160.1 kB
  • After minification 152.2 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. Explore ECPI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 239.1 kB
  • After minification 238.6 kB
  • After compression 220.5 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. Explore.ecpi.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (58%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore ECPI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

explore.ecpi.edu accessibility score

83

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.

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

explore.ecpi.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

SEO Factors

explore.ecpi.edu SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Explore.ecpi.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 Explore.ecpi.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 Explore ECPI. 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: