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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

gcc.edu

Grove City College | A Conservative Christian College in PA

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

777 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

810 ms

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About Website

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

A Christ-centered learning and living experience defined by academic excellence and traditional American values. 180-acre campus an hour north of Pittsburgh.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 777 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gcc.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gcc.edu

777 ms

ici6coc.css

34 ms

4fae62d6ea.css

31 ms

js

70 ms

default.css

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Gcc.edu, 12% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gcc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (19%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

7.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gcc.edu main page is 9.3 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 7.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 107.3 kB

  • Original 129.0 kB
  • After minification 111.8 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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 17.2 kB, which is 13% 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 107.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 351.3 kB

  • Original 7.3 MB
  • After minification 6.9 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. Gcc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 737.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 527.0 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 737.2 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 535.3 kB

  • Original 679.7 kB
  • After minification 597.9 kB
  • After compression 144.4 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. Gcc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 535.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (47%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gcc. 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 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gcc.edu

www.gcc.edu

777 ms

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Accessibility Review

gcc.edu accessibility score

75

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

gcc.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gcc.edu SEO score

76

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Gcc.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 Gcc.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

gcc.edu

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