Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

admissions.tcnj.edu

The College of New Jersey | Undergraduate Admissions

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

943 ms

Page Rendered

587 ms

admissions.tcnj.edu screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.tcnj.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 1.5 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

admissions.tcnj.edu performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.tcnj.edu

71 ms

admissions.tcnj.edu

88 ms

main-style.css

50 ms

recruiting-style.css

52 ms

general-https-720418e.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Admissions.tcnj.edu, 15% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (8 requests) were made to Brand.tcnj.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (496 ms) relates to the external source Brand.tcnj.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

652.6 kB

After Optimization

516.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Admissions.tcnj.edu main page is 652.6 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. 75% 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 481.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 133.4 kB

  • Original 159.3 kB
  • After minification 156.7 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 133.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 481.5 kB
  • After minification 478.6 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 Tcnj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 73 B

  • Original 11.7 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (76%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admissions Tcnj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

admissions.tcnj.edu accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

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.tcnj.edu best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

admissions.tcnj.edu SEO score

88

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

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.tcnj.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.tcnj.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

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