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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

blog.sbc.edu

SBC Blogs | Sweet Briar College

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

496 ms

Resources Loaded

658 ms

Page Rendered

123 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.sbc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 496 ms and then it took 781 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

blog.sbc.edu performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.sbc.edu

496 ms

style.css

48 ms

wp-embed.min.js

34 ms

api.js

40 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.sbc.edu, 13% (1 request) were made to Google.com and 13% (1 request) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (496 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.sbc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.8 kB (65%)

Content Size

294.7 kB

After Optimization

102.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.sbc.edu main page is 294.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 241.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 6.6 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 4.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 547 B

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 21.5 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. Blog SBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 167.1 kB

  • Original 241.7 kB
  • After minification 241.7 kB
  • After compression 74.6 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 167.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 16.6 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Blog.sbc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (43%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog SBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.sbc.edu

blog.sbc.edu

496 ms

style.css

style.css

48 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

34 ms

api.js

api.js

40 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

59 ms

header2.jpg

header2.jpg

78 ms

wordpress.png

wordpress.png

50 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

26 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.sbc.edu accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

blog.sbc.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

SEO Factors

blog.sbc.edu SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blog.sbc.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 Blog.sbc.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

blog.sbc.edu

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