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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

soma.edu

The Soma Institute: Massage Therapy School in Chicago, IL

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

504 ms

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About Website

Welcome to soma.edu homepage info - get ready to check Soma best content right away, or after learning these important things about soma.edu

Become a Massage Therapist at The Soma Institute: A Chicago based massage therapy school. Discover the power of touch and embark on a rewarding career

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soma.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soma.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soma.edu

140 ms

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361 ms

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351 ms

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176 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Soma.edu, 11% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Soma.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soma.edu main page is 2.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 106.6 kB

  • Original 135.1 kB
  • After minification 128.1 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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 106.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Soma images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 246.6 kB
  • After minification 246.6 kB
  • After compression 244.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.8 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. Soma.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (70%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soma. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

soma.edu accessibility score

94

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

soma.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

soma.edu SEO score

86

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

robots.txt is not valid

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 Soma.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 Soma.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

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