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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

lclark.edu

Welcome to Lewis & Clark in Beautiful Portland, Oregon

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lclark.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lclark.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,410 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lclark.edu

202 ms

www.lclark.edu

130 ms

www.lclark.edu

361 ms

%5Clivewhale%5Ctheme%5Ccore%5Cstyles%5Cfrontend.rev.1713462749.css

141 ms

lw-overlay.rev.1707426145.css

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Lclark.edu, 10% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 9% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Lclark.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 225.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

7.6 MB

After Optimization

7.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lclark.edu main page is 7.6 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 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 92.5 kB

  • Original 109.4 kB
  • After minification 106.3 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 92.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 125.6 kB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 6.7 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. L Clark images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 484.6 kB
  • After minification 484.5 kB
  • After compression 477.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 118.3 kB
  • After minification 118.3 kB
  • After compression 118.3 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. Lclark.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (39%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

62

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of L Clark. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

lclark.edu accessibility score

89

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

lclark.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lclark.edu SEO score

89

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lclark.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 Lclark.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 L Clark. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: