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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

hccs.edu

Houston Community College (HCC) | We are Houston's Community College

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

812 ms

Page Rendered

635 ms

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About Website

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Houston Community College is an open-admission, public institution of higher education offering a high-quality, affordable education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hccs.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hccs.edu performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.003

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hccs.edu

39 ms

www.hccs.edu

63 ms

flexslider.min.css

14 ms

main.css

20 ms

carousel.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Hccs.edu, 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Chatsupport.hccs.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (360 ms) relates to the external source Chatsupport.hccs.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 619.6 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hccs.edu main page is 4.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 73.5 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 81.9 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.8 kB, which is 11% 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 73.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 173.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 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. HCC S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 366.1 kB

  • Original 598.8 kB
  • After minification 598.4 kB
  • After compression 232.7 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 366.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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. Hccs.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (42%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HCC S. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hccs.edu

hccs.edu

39 ms

www.hccs.edu

www.hccs.edu

63 ms

flexslider.min.css

flexslider.min.css

14 ms

main.css

main.css

20 ms

carousel.css

carousel.css

28 ms

animate.css

animate.css

24 ms

body.css

body.css

28 ms

home.css

home.css

26 ms

map.css

map.css

29 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

36 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

31 ms

home.min.js

home.min.js

35 ms

chatbeacon.js

chatbeacon.js

360 ms

map.min.js

map.min.js

32 ms

js

js

88 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

31 ms

js

js

88 ms

element.js

element.js

76 ms

print.css

print.css

41 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

187 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

72 ms

hcc-logo-black.png

hcc-logo-black.png

53 ms

pixel.png

pixel.png

54 ms

arrow-blue-solid-sm.png

arrow-blue-solid-sm.png

165 ms

search.png

search.png

52 ms

www-redesignhccsedu_map-360x202px-high_2017-11-07-250x140.jpg

www-redesignhccsedu_map-360x202px-high_2017-11-07-250x140.jpg

51 ms

05012024.RITM00xxxxx.2024SpringCommencement_webbanner.jpg

05012024.RITM00xxxxx.2024SpringCommencement_webbanner.jpg

53 ms

discover.png

discover.png

167 ms

05262023_HCC_Virtual-Tour-B.jpg

05262023_HCC_Virtual-Tour-B.jpg

172 ms

05262023_HCC_Real-World-Education.jpg

05262023_HCC_Real-World-Education.jpg

183 ms

Pamela-Esquivel_300.jpg

Pamela-Esquivel_300.jpg

166 ms

Michellina-Olivas_300.jpg

Michellina-Olivas_300.jpg

164 ms

SajaSosa_300.jpg

SajaSosa_300.jpg

169 ms

Caio_300.jpg

Caio_300.jpg

169 ms

HCC-WebMap2.png

HCC-WebMap2.png

175 ms

blue-arrow.png

blue-arrow.png

173 ms

06022020_HCC-logo.jpg

06022020_HCC-logo.jpg

174 ms

ChrisDazaThumbnail.jpg

ChrisDazaThumbnail.jpg

174 ms

plus.png

plus.png

175 ms

location.png

location.png

175 ms

calendar.png

calendar.png

177 ms

info.png

info.png

177 ms

hcc-logo-white-and-sunshine.png

hcc-logo-white-and-sunshine.png

176 ms

chat.png

chat.png

179 ms

call.png

call.png

178 ms

partner-4.png

partner-4.png

178 ms

partner-5.png

partner-5.png

179 ms

bounce

bounce

120 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

92 ms

bat.js

bat.js

81 ms

destination

destination

48 ms

up_loader.1.1.0.js

up_loader.1.1.0.js

79 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

113 ms

f840bf90-d6f2-0136-46cb-06659b33d47c

f840bf90-d6f2-0136-46cb-06659b33d47c

86 ms

scevent.min.js

scevent.min.js

100 ms

main.js

main.js

322 ms

emergency.json

emergency.json

26 ms

alert.png

alert.png

35 ms

close.png

close.png

34 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

74 ms

Accessibility Review

hccs.edu accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

hccs.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

SEO Factors

hccs.edu SEO score

80

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

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 Hccs.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 Hccs.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

hccs.edu

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