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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

lsac.org

The Law School Admission Council | LSAC

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

272 ms

Page Rendered

931 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lsac.org page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lsac.org performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lsac.org

70 ms

www.lsac.org

71 ms

uc.js

64 ms

css_D-sSNziJQPi9M-xuSt1nZynGX9tKHKz_OV5ECKvPNCk.css

17 ms

css_5KE7Vpw5g9EfmEXYDTTRd-0F12CQ6gtRcUt4Eo3eW60.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Lsac.org, 2% (1 request) were made to Consent.cookiebot.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (71 ms) belongs to the original domain Lsac.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lsac.org main page is 2.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 126.8 kB
  • After minification 94.7 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 32.1 kB, which is 25% 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 112.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 265.1 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Obviously, LSAC needs image optimization as it can save up to 265.1 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 103.9 kB
  • After minification 103.9 kB
  • After compression 83.6 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 20.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 36.3 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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. Lsac.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.4 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (15%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LSAC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

lsac.org accessibility score

88

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

lsac.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

lsac.org 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 Lsac.org 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 Lsac.org 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 LSAC. 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: