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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

hcc.edu

Free College - Holyoke Community College | Holyoke Community College

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

796 ms

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About Website

Visit hcc.edu now to see the best up-to-date Hcc content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hcc.edu

Holyoke Community College is a two-year college located in Holyoke, Massachusetts offering academic, transfer, and non-credit programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hcc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hcc.edu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.675

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hcc.edu

163 ms

hcc.edu

328 ms

www.hcc.edu

180 ms

www.hcc.edu

514 ms

bootstrap.min.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Hcc.edu, 24% (22 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (4 requests) were made to Image.providesupport.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Hcc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 424.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hcc.edu main page is 4.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 131.8 kB

  • Original 149.6 kB
  • After minification 121.9 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.7 kB, which is 19% 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 131.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 257.0 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Hcc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 101.9 kB
  • After minification 101.9 kB
  • After compression 84.3 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 17.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 42.2 kB
  • After minification 42.2 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Hcc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.6 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (55%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hcc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hcc.edu

hcc.edu

163 ms

hcc.edu

hcc.edu

328 ms

www.hcc.edu

www.hcc.edu

180 ms

www.hcc.edu

www.hcc.edu

514 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

42 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

169 ms

screen.css

screen.css

257 ms

igx-dev.css

igx-dev.css

342 ms

jquery.js

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429 ms

jquery-flexslider.js

jquery-flexslider.js

346 ms

jquery-scripts.js

jquery-scripts.js

353 ms

jquery.ticker.min.js

jquery.ticker.min.js

359 ms

jquery.ticker.js

jquery.ticker.js

355 ms

pul3pqy.js

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48 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

448 ms

jquery.animateNumber.min.js

jquery.animateNumber.min.js

431 ms

jquery-popup.js

jquery-popup.js

455 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

46 ms

element.js

element.js

123 ms

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27 ms

css

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40 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

194 ms

font-awesome.css

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196 ms

default.css

default.css

263 ms

popup.css

popup.css

259 ms

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221 ms

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221 ms

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220 ms

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220 ms

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641 ms

certificates(0).jpg

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407 ms

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709 ms

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349 ms

support.png

support.png

885 ms

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883 ms

transfer.jpg

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709 ms

HCC-Newman-Black-web.jpg

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703 ms

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715 ms

F-ICON.png

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794 ms

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795 ms

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906 ms

REd-Eft-closeup-web.jpg

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856 ms

footer-bar.png

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880 ms

scevent.min.js

scevent.min.js

270 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

270 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

290 ms

fbevents.js

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231 ms

image.php

image.php

287 ms

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62 ms

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342 ms

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288 ms

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76 ms

static.js

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29 ms

Accessibility Review

hcc.edu accessibility score

82

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

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

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

Best Practices

hcc.edu best practices score

75

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

hcc.edu SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hcc.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 Hcc.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

hcc.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Hcc. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: