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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

calhoun.edu

Homepage - Calhoun Community College

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

732 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

678 ms

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With locations in Decatur and Huntsville, Alabama, Calhoun is the largest of the two-year institutions comprising The Alabama Community College System. Calhoun is an open-admission, community-based, s...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Calhoun.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 732 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

calhoun.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

calhoun.edu

732 ms

autoptimize_aa006ee5cca6eb49ecef4f7cc41dd9f3.css

90 ms

js

50 ms

css

39 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Calhoun.edu, 6% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (732 ms) belongs to the original domain Calhoun.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Calhoun.edu main page is 4.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 87.4 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 110.1 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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 87.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Calhoun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 257.9 kB
  • After minification 257.4 kB
  • After compression 251.9 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 189 B

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 53.9 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. Calhoun.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (61%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Calhoun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

calhoun.edu

calhoun.edu

732 ms

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90 ms

js

js

50 ms

css

css

39 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

81 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

148 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

81 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

81 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

160 ms

sortable.min.js

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165 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

164 ms

menu.min.js

menu.min.js

168 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

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164 ms

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176 ms

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178 ms

dom-ready.min.js

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174 ms

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174 ms

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176 ms

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174 ms

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203 ms

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204 ms

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200 ms

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202 ms

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205 ms

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202 ms

dialog.min.js

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228 ms

events-manager.js

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236 ms

selectmenu.min.js

selectmenu.min.js

227 ms

tooltip.min.js

tooltip.min.js

227 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

240 ms

main.js

main.js

288 ms

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37 ms

jquery.background-video.js

jquery.background-video.js

248 ms

jQuery.succinct.min.js

jQuery.succinct.min.js

249 ms

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248 ms

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259 ms

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247 ms

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252 ms

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61 ms

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60 ms

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137 ms

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100 ms

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116 ms

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127 ms

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106 ms

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108 ms

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294 ms

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239 ms

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160 ms

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39 ms

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150 ms

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42 ms

Accessibility Review

calhoun.edu accessibility score

92

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

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.

Best Practices

calhoun.edu 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

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

calhoun.edu SEO score

83

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

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 Calhoun.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 Calhoun.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

calhoun.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Calhoun. 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: