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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

westmont.edu

Westmont College | A Christian Liberal Arts College in California

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

5 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westmont.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westmont.edu performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value41.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,650 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.737

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westmont.edu

199 ms

westmont.edu

250 ms

www.westmont.edu

451 ms

gtag.js

146 ms

css_o6FTHSIjmQEOCXex-O_0sQpesgLwEh8zdFNgaHxGeTU.css

423 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Westmont.edu, 8% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Westmont.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.1 kB (1%)

Content Size

24.3 MB

After Optimization

24.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westmont.edu main page is 24.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 23.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 66.7 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 14.0 kB, which is 17% 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 64.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 85.6 kB

  • Original 23.8 MB
  • After minification 23.7 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. Westmont images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 335.7 kB
  • After minification 335.7 kB
  • After compression 333.1 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 256 B

  • Original 91.1 kB
  • After minification 91.1 kB
  • After compression 90.8 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. Westmont.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (43%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westmont. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

westmont.edu accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

westmont.edu best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

westmont.edu SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Westmont.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 Westmont.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 Westmont. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: