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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% 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

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

citadel.edu

The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

467 ms

citadel.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Citadel content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about citadel.edu

The Citadel, a Senior Military College, is a landmark in Charleston, South Carolina noted for its educational reputation and rich history.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citadel.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citadel.edu performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,140 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.citadel.edu

51 ms

script.js

31 ms

style.min.css

8 ms

block-styles.css

16 ms

onz2qme.css

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Citadel.edu, 12% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 9% (6 requests) were made to Today.citadel.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (899 ms) relates to the external source Log.cookieyes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citadel.edu main page is 3.3 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 102.8 kB

  • Original 132.6 kB
  • After minification 126.3 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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 102.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 57.1 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Citadel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 341.6 kB
  • After minification 341.6 kB
  • After compression 315.2 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 116.5 kB
  • After minification 116.5 kB
  • After compression 101.7 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. Citadel.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (54%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citadel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.citadel.edu

www.citadel.edu

51 ms

script.js

script.js

31 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

8 ms

block-styles.css

block-styles.css

16 ms

onz2qme.css

onz2qme.css

140 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

15 ms

style.css

style.css

16 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

17 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

19 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

18 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

20 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

18 ms

site.min.js

site.min.js

19 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

22 ms

coblocks-animation.js

coblocks-animation.js

21 ms

tiny-swiper.js

tiny-swiper.js

21 ms

coblocks-tinyswiper-initializer.js

coblocks-tinyswiper-initializer.js

135 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

23 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

134 ms

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

25 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.js

wp-mediaelement.min.js

24 ms

vimeo.min.js

vimeo.min.js

23 ms

log

log

899 ms

style.css

style.css

71 ms

sKeGY9G3rq0

sKeGY9G3rq0

237 ms

20240504_SCCC_Graduation_0009-768x432.jpg

20240504_SCCC_Graduation_0009-768x432.jpg

48 ms

20240504_SCCC_Graduation_0009-150x84.jpg

20240504_SCCC_Graduation_0009-150x84.jpg

226 ms

20240503_Joint-Commissioning_0157-768x432.jpg

20240503_Joint-Commissioning_0157-768x432.jpg

226 ms

20240503_Joint-Commissioning_0157-150x84.jpg

20240503_Joint-Commissioning_0157-150x84.jpg

259 ms

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259 ms

DSC5972-150x84.jpg

DSC5972-150x84.jpg

232 ms

Citadel_Logo_Signature_Horizontal_Reverse.png

Citadel_Logo_Signature_Horizontal_Reverse.png

17 ms

infographic-01.png

infographic-01.png

223 ms

infographic-02.png

infographic-02.png

17 ms

infographic-03.png

infographic-03.png

23 ms

infographic-04.png

infographic-04.png

16 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

22 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

22 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

24 ms

p.css

p.css

28 ms

20191005_RP_ParentsDay_034.jpg

20191005_RP_ParentsDay_034.jpg

189 ms

20200311_CP_CGC_011-1.jpg

20200311_CP_CGC_011-1.jpg

191 ms

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20200115_CP_LaurenMoore_007-min-scaled.jpg

191 ms

20200123_CP_CGC_013-min-1-scaled-e1592862912664.jpg

20200123_CP_CGC_013-min-1-scaled-e1592862912664.jpg

153 ms

admin-ajax.php_.jpeg

admin-ajax.php_.jpeg

116 ms

logo-white-x.png

logo-white-x.png

145 ms

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151 ms

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152 ms

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149 ms

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151 ms

mejs-controls.svg

mejs-controls.svg

50 ms

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48 ms

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51 ms

d

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118 ms

american_captain-webfont.woff

american_captain-webfont.woff

87 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

15 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

56 ms

base.js

base.js

117 ms

print.css

print.css

296 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

199 ms

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116 ms

embed.js

embed.js

49 ms

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79 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxPKTU1Kg.ttf

143 ms

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144 ms

Create

Create

110 ms

id

id

101 ms

Accessibility Review

citadel.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

citadel.edu 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

citadel.edu SEO score

99

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 Citadel.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 Citadel.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

citadel.edu

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