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greenmtn.edu

Green Mountain College: First in Sustainability and Environmental Studies in Poultney, Vermont – First in Sustainability

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

589 ms

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About Website

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Green Mountain College focuses on environmental, social and economic sustainability. With a #1 rated curriculum in the nation, we're recognized for our leadership in sustainability.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greenmtn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greenmtn.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.greenmtn.edu

1216 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

69 ms

79 ms

font-awesome.min.css

4 ms

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Greenmtn.edu, 12% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Greenmtn.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Greenmtn.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 101.7 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 118.5 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 101.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Green Mtn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 93.0 kB

  • Original 157.9 kB
  • After minification 157.8 kB
  • After compression 64.8 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 93.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 22.1 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Greenmtn.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (32%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Green Mtn. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Greenmtn.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 Greenmtn.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 Green Mtn. 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: