Access providence.edu. Providence College | A Catholic College in Rhode Island and New England

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.034

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

providence.edu

17 ms

sites.providence.edu

60 ms

ping

71 ms

style.min.css

35 ms

style.min.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Providence.edu, 82% (45 requests) were made to Sites.providence.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (212 ms) relates to the external source Cloud.google.com.

Content Size

594.8 kB

After Optimization

407.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Providence.edu main page is 594.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 253.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

Original 113.3 kB
After minification 112.0 kB
After compression 30.2 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 83.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

Original 66.3 kB
After minification 60.4 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. Providence images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

Original 253.9 kB
After minification 253.9 kB
After compression 193.4 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 60.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

Original 161.2 kB
After minification 161.2 kB
After compression 122.9 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. Providence.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Providence. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.