Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

patrac.org

PA TRAC - Pennsylvania Transfer And Articulation Center

Page Load Speed

655 ms in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

461 ms

Page Rendered

88 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Patrac.org page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 549 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

patrac.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

patrac.org

106 ms

default.css

23 ms

platform.css

53 ms

admin.css

38 ms

jquery-ui.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Patrac.org, 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (208 ms) belongs to the original domain Patrac.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 591.4 kB (66%)

Content Size

891.2 kB

After Optimization

299.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Patrac.org main page is 891.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 419.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.3 kB, which is 24% 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 23.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 401.1 kB

  • Original 419.0 kB
  • After minification 17.9 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. Obviously, PA TRAC needs image optimization as it can save up to 401.1 kB or 96% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 128.9 kB

  • Original 348.3 kB
  • After minification 348.3 kB
  • After compression 219.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 128.9 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 92.6 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 55.1 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. Patrac.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.5 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (70%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PA TRAC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

patrac.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

patrac.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

patrac.org SEO score

96

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 Patrac.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 Patrac.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 PA TRAC. 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: