Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

syracuseacademy.org

Syracuse Academy | Study Abroad in Italy - Syracuse, Sicily

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

665 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

728 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Syracuseacademy.org page load time and found that the first response time was 665 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

syracuseacademy.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,140 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.115

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.syracuseacademy.org

665 ms

wpo-minify-header-78061e1a.min.css

104 ms

css

48 ms

js

80 ms

wpo-minify-footer-25ba113f.min.css

422 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Syracuseacademy.org, 46% (63 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Syracuseacademy.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 310.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Syracuseacademy.org main page is 3.1 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 224.6 kB

  • Original 267.3 kB
  • After minification 260.9 kB
  • After compression 42.7 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 224.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 81.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Syracuse Academy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 701.2 kB
  • After minification 701.2 kB
  • After compression 697.1 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 157 B

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 106.2 kB
  • After compression 106.1 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. Syracuseacademy.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (32%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Syracuse Academy. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

syracuseacademy.org accessibility score

82

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

syracuseacademy.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

syracuseacademy.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Syracuseacademy.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 Syracuseacademy.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 data is detected on the main page of Syracuse Academy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: