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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

nmc.edu

NMC| Northwestern Michigan College

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

968 ms

Page Rendered

541 ms

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About Website

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

Northwestern Michigan College is a publicly funded community college that serves more than 50,000 learners a year in the Grand Traverse region and beyond, offering associate degrees, professional cert...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nmc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 1.5 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

nmc.edu performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.444

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.nmc.edu

183 ms

gtm.js

54 ms

global.css

34 ms

skipnav.css

112 ms

home.css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Nmc.edu, 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Youvisit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (326 ms) belongs to the original domain Nmc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nmc.edu main page is 1.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 28.9 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. 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 22.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. NMC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 102.5 kB
  • After minification 102.5 kB
  • After compression 101.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 11.9 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Nmc.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (46%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NMC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.nmc.edu

www.nmc.edu

183 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

54 ms

global.css

global.css

34 ms

skipnav.css

skipnav.css

112 ms

home.css

home.css

114 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

147 ms

swiper.min.js

swiper.min.js

268 ms

message.js

message.js

146 ms

backtotop.css

backtotop.css

145 ms

backtotop.js

backtotop.js

143 ms

js2

js2

111 ms

menu-footer.js

menu-footer.js

143 ms

home.js

home.js

192 ms

js

js

95 ms

destination

destination

46 ms

commncement-congrats-5-6-24-a.jpg

commncement-congrats-5-6-24-a.jpg

103 ms

college-edge-adult-2024-a.jpg

college-edge-adult-2024-a.jpg

115 ms

college-edge-math-bootcamp-2024-a.jpg

college-edge-math-bootcamp-2024-a.jpg

137 ms

orientation-kickoff-4-16-24-a.jpg

orientation-kickoff-4-16-24-a.jpg

221 ms

fafsa-help-4-16-24-a.jpg

fafsa-help-4-16-24-a.jpg

198 ms

grandview-parkway-front-street-construction-A.jpg

grandview-parkway-front-street-construction-A.jpg

102 ms

homepage-featured-item-mi-reconnect-21-plus.png

homepage-featured-item-mi-reconnect-21-plus.png

136 ms

homepage-featured-item-MI-achievement-2024.png

homepage-featured-item-MI-achievement-2024.png

137 ms

bkg_maritime_academy.jpg

bkg_maritime_academy.jpg

144 ms

bkg_culinary_institute.jpg

bkg_culinary_institute.jpg

170 ms

bkg_water_studies_institute.jpg

bkg_water_studies_institute.jpg

168 ms

bkg_audio-tech.jpg

bkg_audio-tech.jpg

168 ms

bkg_aviation.jpg

bkg_aviation.jpg

172 ms

bkg_computer_information.jpg

bkg_computer_information.jpg

199 ms

bkg_engineering-1a.jpg

bkg_engineering-1a.jpg

201 ms

bkg_engineering-tech.jpg

bkg_engineering-tech.jpg

202 ms

bkg_nursing-video-1.jpg

bkg_nursing-video-1.jpg

201 ms

bkg_police-academy-2.jpg

bkg_police-academy-2.jpg

258 ms

bkg_surveying.jpg

bkg_surveying.jpg

231 ms

logo_nmc_tree_footer.svg

logo_nmc_tree_footer.svg

233 ms

icn_dsk_nav_arrow_down.png

icn_dsk_nav_arrow_down.png

215 ms

icn_instagram.svg

icn_instagram.svg

220 ms

icn_facebook.svg

icn_facebook.svg

234 ms

icn_twitter.svg

icn_twitter.svg

243 ms

icn_youtube.svg

icn_youtube.svg

246 ms

icn_search.png

icn_search.png

248 ms

logo_nmc_header.png

logo_nmc_header.png

250 ms

icn_hamburger.png

icn_hamburger.png

264 ms

icn_nav_arrow_down_white.png

icn_nav_arrow_down_white.png

275 ms

life-at-nmc-bkgd-2023-a.jpg

life-at-nmc-bkgd-2023-a.jpg

326 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

23 ms

dywfi04ze0

dywfi04ze0

84 ms

chevron-green-edge.png

chevron-green-edge.png

246 ms

budget-transparency-reporting-white-text.svg

budget-transparency-reporting-white-text.svg

243 ms

bounce

bounce

9 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

14 ms

smartscript.js

smartscript.js

3 ms

messages.xml

messages.xml

42 ms

c.gif

c.gif

8 ms

Accessibility Review

nmc.edu accessibility score

90

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

Best Practices

nmc.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nmc.edu SEO score

85

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

nmc.edu

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