Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

lec.edu

Tailored Degree Programs in Ohio & Online - Home | Lake Erie College

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

393 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lec.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Lec.edu rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

lec.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,420 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lec.edu

67 ms

www.lec.edu

43 ms

www.lec.edu

781 ms

jquery

179 ms

home.min.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Lec.edu, 8% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (781 ms) belongs to the original domain Lec.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 497.7 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Lec.edu main page is 2.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 77.2 kB
  • After minification 67.4 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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 9.9 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 54.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Lec images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 143.8 kB

  • Original 241.8 kB
  • After minification 238.2 kB
  • After compression 98.0 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 143.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 291.9 kB

  • Original 352.7 kB
  • After minification 352.3 kB
  • After compression 60.9 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. Lec.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 291.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (27%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lec. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lec.edu accessibility score

89

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.

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

lec.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lec.edu SEO score

91

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

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 Lec.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 Lec.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 Lec. 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: