Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

teacherscollege.columbia.edu

Graduate School of Education | Teachers College, Columbia University

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

942 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Teacherscollege.columbia.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 107 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

teacherscollege.columbia.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.66

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

teacherscollege.columbia.edu

107 ms

www.tc.columbia.edu

64 ms

gtm.js

333 ms

ping

466 ms

styles.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Teacherscollege.columbia.edu, 82% (47 requests) were made to Tc.columbia.edu and 7% (4 requests) were made to Curator-assets.b-cdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (466 ms) relates to the external source Apply.tc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 411.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

8.3 MB

After Optimization

7.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Teacherscollege.columbia.edu main page is 8.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 121.9 kB

  • Original 143.6 kB
  • After minification 131.0 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 121.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 289.7 kB

  • Original 7.9 MB
  • After minification 7.6 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. Teachers College Columbia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 192.5 kB
  • After minification 192.5 kB
  • After compression 192.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 179 B

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 83.3 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. Teacherscollege.columbia.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (7%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Teachers College Columbia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

teacherscollege.columbia.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

teacherscollege.columbia.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

teacherscollege.columbia.edu SEO score

93

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

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

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 Teacherscollege.columbia.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 Teacherscollege.columbia.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 Teachers College Columbia. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: