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search.colum.edu

Columbia College Chicago

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

138 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

230 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Search.colum.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 138 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

search.colum.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

search.colum.edu

138 ms

www.colum.edu

89 ms

webtype.css

116 ms

app.css

169 ms

slick.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Search.colum.edu, 36% (27 requests) were made to Colum.edu and 36% (27 requests) were made to Static.formstack.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (626 ms) relates to the external source Colum.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (34%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Search.colum.edu main page is 3.4 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. 75% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 147.9 kB

  • Original 170.1 kB
  • After minification 124.6 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 45.5 kB, which is 27% 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 147.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Search Colum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 431.4 kB

  • Original 600.9 kB
  • After minification 554.2 kB
  • After compression 169.5 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 431.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 541.9 kB

  • Original 627.6 kB
  • After minification 623.9 kB
  • After compression 85.7 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. Search.colum.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 541.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (69%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search Colum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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89 ms

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SEO Factors

search.colum.edu SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Search.colum.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Search.colum.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

search.colum.edu

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