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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

blog.spol.com

Blog | Higher Education | Institutional Effectiveness | SPOL

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

915 ms

Page Rendered

898 ms

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About Website

Visit blog.spol.com now to see the best up-to-date Blog SPOL content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blog.spol.com

Visit SPOL's blog to learn more about how to improve institutional effectiveness in higher education. Topics include planning, budgeting, credentialing, assessment, and accreditation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.spol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.spol.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,320 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.spol.com

115 ms

jquery-1.7.1.js

31 ms

project.css

44 ms

rss_post_listing.css

48 ms

js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.spol.com, 16% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (344 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.spol.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.spol.com main page is 2.5 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. 80% 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 118.5 kB

  • Original 137.4 kB
  • After minification 131.4 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 118.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Blog SPOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 251.1 kB
  • After minification 251.1 kB
  • After compression 244.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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.spol.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (59%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog SPOL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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115 ms

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31 ms

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44 ms

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48 ms

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69 ms

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90 ms

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65 ms

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87 ms

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38 ms

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64 ms

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51 ms

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164 ms

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54 ms

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70 ms

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50 ms

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282 ms

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34 ms

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34 ms

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283 ms

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185 ms

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188 ms

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187 ms

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188 ms

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189 ms

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344 ms

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Accessibility Review

blog.spol.com accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

blog.spol.com best practices score

75

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

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

blog.spol.com SEO score

85

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

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 Blog.spol.com 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.spol.com 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.spol.com

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