Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

83 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

522 ms

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About Website

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

Private liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa, ranked among the best small colleges in the U.S. Courses taught on a focused One Course At A Time curriculum.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cornellcollege.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 83 ms and then it took 2.4 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

cornellcollege.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cornellcollege.edu

83 ms

www.cornellcollege.edu

118 ms

style.css

168 ms

5ac68a41-334b-493c-881e-8e78890e7192.css

61 ms

modernizr.custom.js

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Cornellcollege.edu, 13% (7 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Cloud.webtype.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) belongs to the original domain Cornellcollege.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 744.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Cornellcollege.edu main page is 2.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 24.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Cornellcollege images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 483.9 kB

  • Original 716.9 kB
  • After minification 661.9 kB
  • After compression 233.0 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 483.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 215.2 kB

  • Original 236.2 kB
  • After minification 121.5 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. Cornellcollege.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 215.2 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (35%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cornellcollege. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cornellcollege.edu accessibility score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

cornellcollege.edu best practices score

62

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cornellcollege.edu SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cornellcollege.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Cornellcollege.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 description is not detected on the main page of Cornellcollege. 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: