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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

northlakecollege.edu

Dallas College: Education That Works in Dallas County

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

206 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northlakecollege.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northlakecollege.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,250 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northlakecollege.edu

101 ms

default.aspx

1720 ms

controls.css

221 ms

page-layouts-21.css

121 ms

reset-min.css

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Northlakecollege.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Northlakecollege.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 897.1 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

652.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northlakecollege.edu main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 624.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 69.3 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 9.1 kB, which is 12% 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 60.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 471.0 kB
  • After minification 462.0 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. Northlake College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 499.9 kB

  • Original 624.0 kB
  • After minification 475.8 kB
  • After compression 124.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 499.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 327.9 kB

  • Original 375.6 kB
  • After minification 265.6 kB
  • After compression 47.7 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. Northlakecollege.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 327.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (55%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northlake College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northlakecollege.edu

northlakecollege.edu

101 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

1720 ms

controls.css

controls.css

221 ms

page-layouts-21.css

page-layouts-21.css

121 ms

reset-min.css

reset-min.css

119 ms

search.css

search.css

166 ms

corev4.css

corev4.css

264 ms

nlccommonmasterstyle.css

nlccommonmasterstyle.css

366 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

354 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

162 ms

blank.debug.js

blank.debug.js

176 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

183 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

245 ms

init.debug.js

init.debug.js

71 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

133 ms

footer_background.gif

footer_background.gif

81 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

111 ms

gosearch15.png

gosearch15.png

110 ms

megabar_about.jpg

megabar_about.jpg

166 ms

megabar_admission.jpg

megabar_admission.jpg

174 ms

megabar_academics.jpg

megabar_academics.jpg

253 ms

megabar_conted.jpg

megabar_conted.jpg

245 ms

megabar_library.jpg

megabar_library.jpg

263 ms

megabar_studentres.jpg

megabar_studentres.jpg

269 ms

megabar_studentlife.jpg

megabar_studentlife.jpg

339 ms

GEARS_AN.GIF

GEARS_AN.GIF

270 ms

fgimg.png

fgimg.png

325 ms

section_rss.gif

section_rss.gif

343 ms

hawaii.jpg

hawaii.jpg

356 ms

orange_arrow.gif

orange_arrow.gif

364 ms

scholarshipwinners.jpg

scholarshipwinners.jpg

367 ms

warning.gif

warning.gif

421 ms

flex_reg.jpg

flex_reg.jpg

438 ms

central_campus_pointer.gif

central_campus_pointer.gif

439 ms

north_campus_pointer.gif

north_campus_pointer.gif

447 ms

south_campus_pointer.gif

south_campus_pointer.gif

453 ms

west_campus_pointer.gif

west_campus_pointer.gif

455 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

517 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

540 ms

flickr.gif

flickr.gif

539 ms

youtube.gif

youtube.gif

547 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

552 ms

sustainable.gif

sustainable.gif

554 ms

header_background_outer.gif

header_background_outer.gif

596 ms

header_background_inner.gif

header_background_inner.gif

618 ms

top_nav_bullet.gif

top_nav_bullet.gif

617 ms

bgximg.png

bgximg.png

616 ms

content_background.gif

content_background.gif

627 ms

league_gothic-webfont.woff

league_gothic-webfont.woff

621 ms

vertical_border.gif

vertical_border.gif

661 ms

event_date.gif

event_date.gif

673 ms

ga.js

ga.js

28 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

footer_background.gif

footer_background.gif

610 ms

collect

collect

63 ms

Accessibility Review

northlakecollege.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

northlakecollege.edu best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northlakecollege.edu SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Northlakecollege.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 Northlakecollege.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

northlakecollege.edu

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