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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

gatewayct.edu

Welcome to CT State Community College Gateway

Page Load Speed

825 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

590 ms

Page Rendered

179 ms

gatewayct.edu screenshot

About Website

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homepage of Gateway Community College, New Haven, CT

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gatewayct.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 769 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gatewayct.edu performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gatewayct.edu

56 ms

GetResource.ashx

9 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

16 ms

jquery-extra-selectors.js

13 ms

jquery-main.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Gatewayct.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Feedburner.google.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (506 ms) belongs to the original domain Gatewayct.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

619.2 kB

After Optimization

456.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gatewayct.edu main page is 619.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 418.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 36.3 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 27.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 418.1 kB
  • After minification 384.4 kB

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. Gateway CT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 77.0 kB

  • Original 132.3 kB
  • After minification 127.4 kB
  • After compression 55.3 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 77.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Gatewayct.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (21%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gateway CT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gatewayct.edu

gatewayct.edu

56 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

9 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

16 ms

jquery-extra-selectors.js

jquery-extra-selectors.js

13 ms

jquery-main.js

jquery-main.js

13 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

13 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

28 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

33 ms

countdown.php

countdown.php

177 ms

GatewayNewHaven

GatewayNewHaven

42 ms

DK-June13_web.jpg

DK-June13_web.jpg

55 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

25 ms

homepage1_new.jpg

homepage1_new.jpg

22 ms

homepagesmall_new.jpg

homepagesmall_new.jpg

24 ms

homepage_small_new2.jpg

homepage_small_new2.jpg

22 ms

homepagesmall4.jpg

homepagesmall4.jpg

24 ms

neasc-logo-blue.aspx

neasc-logo-blue.aspx

25 ms

maxresdefault.aspx

maxresdefault.aspx

506 ms

College-Student-Discounts_web.jpg

College-Student-Discounts_web.jpg

26 ms

taxes_main.jpg

taxes_main.jpg

27 ms

HillHealthButton.bmp

HillHealthButton.bmp

29 ms

ico-facebook.gif

ico-facebook.gif

24 ms

ico-twitter.gif

ico-twitter.gif

25 ms

ico-flickr.gif

ico-flickr.gif

27 ms

ico-youtube.gif

ico-youtube.gif

27 ms

sprite2.png

sprite2.png

15 ms

sprite1.png

sprite1.png

13 ms

bg-panel-nav.gif

bg-panel-nav.gif

15 ms

bg-main.gif

bg-main.gif

18 ms

bg-main-holder.gif

bg-main-holder.gif

17 ms

bullet2.gif

bullet2.gif

17 ms

gradient-curve.png

gradient-curve.png

20 ms

sprite3.png

sprite3.png

18 ms

feed-icon-10x10.gif

feed-icon-10x10.gif

49 ms

ga.js

ga.js

38 ms

buzzboost-pwrd.gif

buzzboost-pwrd.gif

16 ms

bullet1.gif

bullet1.gif

17 ms

divider1.gif

divider1.gif

16 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

collect

collect

62 ms

Accessibility Review

gatewayct.edu accessibility score

68

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

gatewayct.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gatewayct.edu SEO score

58

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Gatewayct.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 Gatewayct.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

gatewayct.edu

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