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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

courses.simmons.edu

Summer : B : Current Course Listings : Simmons University - Boston, Massachusetts

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

810 ms

Page Rendered

593 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Courses.simmons.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

courses.simmons.edu performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

courses.simmons.edu

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28 ms

55 ms

css

37 ms

css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Courses.simmons.edu, 28% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 14% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (201 ms) belongs to the original domain Courses.simmons.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

174.2 kB

After Optimization

108.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Courses.simmons.edu main page is 174.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 63.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 53.9 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. 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 53.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 9.1 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. Obviously, Course S Simmons needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 33% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 33.3 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 63.9 kB
  • After compression 56.2 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. Courses.simmons.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (63%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Course S Simmons. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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custom.css

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81 ms

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82 ms

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159 ms

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27 ms

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121 ms

navarrow.png

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71 ms

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Accessibility Review

courses.simmons.edu accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

courses.simmons.edu 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

SEO Factors

courses.simmons.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Courses.simmons.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 Courses.simmons.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

courses.simmons.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Course S Simmons. 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: