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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

admissions.tamu.edu

Admissions - Texas A&M Admissions

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

566 ms

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About Website

Welcome to admissions.tamu.edu homepage info - get ready to check Admissions Tamu best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about admissions.tamu.edu

Texas A&M University is home to more than 70,000 students engaged in over 200 fields of study. View our resources, application requirements and more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.tamu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admissions.tamu.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.tamu.edu

1260 ms

gtm.js

72 ms

gtm.js

127 ms

bootstrap.min.css

51 ms

font-awesome.min.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Admissions.tamu.edu, 22% (19 requests) were made to Pitocdnscripts.as.tamu.edu and 12% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Admissions.tamu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 98.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Admissions.tamu.edu main page is 1.4 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 763.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 89.3 kB
  • After minification 69.8 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.5 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 74.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 763.7 kB
  • After minification 759.7 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. Admissions Tamu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 454.9 kB
  • After minification 454.3 kB
  • After compression 436.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 897 B

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 85.2 kB
  • After compression 84.4 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. Admissions.tamu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (65%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admissions Tamu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.tamu.edu

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72 ms

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127 ms

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59 ms

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575 ms

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443 ms

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449 ms

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448 ms

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448 ms

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168 ms

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Footer

108 ms

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56 ms

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76 ms

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100 ms

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Accessibility Review

admissions.tamu.edu accessibility score

87

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

admissions.tamu.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

admissions.tamu.edu SEO score

81

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Admissions.tamu.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 Admissions.tamu.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

admissions.tamu.edu

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