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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

providence.edu

Providence College | A Catholic College in Rhode Island and New England

Page Load Speed

668 ms in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

566 ms

Page Rendered

85 ms

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About Website

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Providence College is a Catholic College in Rhode Island and New England. Located just outside of the Providence downtown, and a relatively short distance from Boston and New York City. Providence Col...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Providence.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 651 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

providence.edu performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.034

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

providence.edu

17 ms

sites.providence.edu

60 ms

ping

71 ms

style.min.css

35 ms

style.min.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Providence.edu, 82% (45 requests) were made to Sites.providence.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (212 ms) relates to the external source Cloud.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 187.8 kB (32%)

Content Size

594.8 kB

After Optimization

407.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Providence.edu main page is 594.8 kB. 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. Javascripts take 253.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 113.3 kB
  • After minification 112.0 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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. 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 83.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 60.4 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. Providence images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 253.9 kB
  • After minification 253.9 kB
  • After compression 193.4 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 60.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 161.2 kB
  • After minification 161.2 kB
  • After compression 122.9 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. Providence.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (70%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Providence. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

providence.edu

providence.edu

17 ms

sites.providence.edu

sites.providence.edu

60 ms

ping

ping

71 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

35 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

55 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

46 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

60 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

45 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

96 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

74 ms

blocks.style.build.css

blocks.style.build.css

95 ms

style-index.css

style-index.css

78 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

85 ms

rebrand-styles.css

rebrand-styles.css

90 ms

index.compiled.css

index.compiled.css

145 ms

tmpl-landing.css

tmpl-landing.css

132 ms

pc-core-nav.css

pc-core-nav.css

129 ms

default.css

default.css

130 ms

ping

ping

63 ms

ping

ping

68 ms

js

js

97 ms

client

client

212 ms

ba-slider.css

ba-slider.css

130 ms

webcomponents-loader.js

webcomponents-loader.js

136 ms

index.prettified.js

index.prettified.js

203 ms

rebrand-scripts.js

rebrand-scripts.js

204 ms

pc-vertex-search.js

pc-vertex-search.js

202 ms

table.compiled.js

table.compiled.js

202 ms

player_api

player_api

76 ms

flickity.min.js

flickity.min.js

204 ms

majorsMinorsBlock.compiled.js

majorsMinorsBlock.compiled.js

203 ms

5.1.0

5.1.0

76 ms

pc-core-nav.js

pc-core-nav.js

207 ms

ba-slider.js

ba-slider.js

205 ms

rebrand-main-logo.png

rebrand-main-logo.png

72 ms

centered-menu-logo.png

centered-menu-logo.png

72 ms

pc-200.png

pc-200.png

71 ms

pc-news-final.png

pc-news-final.png

71 ms

icon-location.png

icon-location.png

70 ms

PC-logo-centered-1-white.png

PC-logo-centered-1-white.png

71 ms

footer-icon-map.png

footer-icon-map.png

74 ms

footer-icon-envelope.png

footer-icon-envelope.png

74 ms

footer-icon-thumb.png

footer-icon-thumb.png

79 ms

footer-icon-briefcase.png

footer-icon-briefcase.png

76 ms

chunky-arrow.svg

chunky-arrow.svg

113 ms

webcomponents-sd-ce-pf.js

webcomponents-sd-ce-pf.js

72 ms

dropdown-rollover-chip.png

dropdown-rollover-chip.png

38 ms

EamesCenturyModern-Book.woff

EamesCenturyModern-Book.woff

150 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

119 ms

GT-America-Standard-Bold.woff

GT-America-Standard-Bold.woff

119 ms

GT-America-Standard-Regular.woff

GT-America-Standard-Regular.woff

77 ms

45c191db-9f7e-4ba6-bb16-225578227989.woff

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118 ms

GT-America-Condensed-Medium.woff

GT-America-Condensed-Medium.woff

118 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

19 ms

rebrand-styles-print.css

rebrand-styles-print.css

29 ms

Accessibility Review

providence.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

providence.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

SEO Factors

providence.edu SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Providence.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 Providence.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

providence.edu

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