Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

pierpont.edu

Pierpont Community & Technical College - West Virginia

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

598 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pierpont.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3 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

pierpont.edu performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.228

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pierpont.edu

1114 ms

main.min.css

64 ms

astra-local-fonts.css

35 ms

simple-banner.css

35 ms

astra-addon-663b9408308827-19872633.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Pierpont.edu, 7% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.yoshki.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Pierpont.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Pierpont.edu main page is 3.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 199.4 kB

  • Original 242.3 kB
  • After minification 235.8 kB
  • After compression 42.9 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. 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 199.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 159.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Pierpont images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 488.5 kB

  • Original 743.1 kB
  • After minification 737.0 kB
  • After compression 254.6 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 488.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 447.5 kB

  • Original 519.6 kB
  • After minification 499.6 kB
  • After compression 72.2 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. Pierpont.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 447.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (74%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pierpont. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pierpont.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

pierpont.edu best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pierpont.edu SEO score

90

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

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