Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

lavc.edu

Homepage | LAVC

Page Load Speed

21.8 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

13.6 sec

Page Rendered

6.8 sec

lavc.edu screenshot

About Website

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

Los Angeles Valley College, home of the LAVC Monarchs, offers Associates of Art (AA) and Associates of Science (AS) degrees, certificates of completion, and skill certificates.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lavc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 20.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lavc.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.495

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lavc.edu

1320 ms

GetCSS.aspx

2504 ms

GetCSS.aspx

1869 ms

modernizr.js

1853 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

3556 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Lavc.edu, 11% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 935.9 kB (42%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Lavc.edu main page is 2.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 989.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 38.6 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 27.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 989.1 kB
  • After minification 969.2 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. LAVC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 556.3 kB

  • Original 778.2 kB
  • After minification 763.6 kB
  • After compression 221.9 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 556.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 332.4 kB

  • Original 398.6 kB
  • After minification 382.3 kB
  • After compression 66.2 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. Lavc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 332.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (61%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LAVC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lavc.edu accessibility score

72

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

lavc.edu best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

lavc.edu SEO score

79

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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