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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

pct.edu

Future Made By Hand | Pennsylvania College of Technology

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

667 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pct.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pct.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,120 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.26

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pct.edu

37 ms

www.pct.edu

41 ms

gtm.js

78 ms

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36 ms

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27 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Pct.edu, 21% (13 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (563 ms) relates to the external source Media.rss.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 490.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pct.edu main page is 6.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 304.6 kB

  • Original 334.1 kB
  • After minification 275.1 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 59.0 kB, which is 18% 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 304.6 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 124.1 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Pct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 340.1 kB
  • After minification 340.1 kB
  • After compression 294.5 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 45.6 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 52.5 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. Pct.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.9 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (59%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pct.edu

pct.edu

37 ms

www.pct.edu

www.pct.edu

41 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

78 ms

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36 ms

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27 ms

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aos.css

117 ms

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41 ms

css

css

66 ms

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40 ms

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47 ms

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aos.js

160 ms

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115 ms

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40 ms

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41 ms

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alert.js

41 ms

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44 ms

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10 ms

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273 ms

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267 ms

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489 ms

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446 ms

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392 ms

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496 ms

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552 ms

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553 ms

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344 ms

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273 ms

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325 ms

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212 ms

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112 ms

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82 ms

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11 ms

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180 ms

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69 ms

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76 ms

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204 ms

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74 ms

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50 ms

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101 ms

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38 ms

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25 ms

Accessibility Review

pct.edu accessibility score

81

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

pct.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pct.edu SEO score

75

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

pct.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Pct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: