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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

texascollegeaccess.org

Educate Texas - Texas College Access Network - Home

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Texascollegeaccess.org page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

texascollegeaccess.org performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,880 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

texascollegeaccess.org

115 ms

home

613 ms

gtm.js

198 ms

hotjar-2191475.js

288 ms

css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Texascollegeaccess.org, 70% (39 requests) were made to Edtx.org and 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Edtx.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 441.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Texascollegeaccess.org main page is 5.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 37.6 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 27.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 322.5 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Texas College Access images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 42.2 kB

  • Original 212.8 kB
  • After minification 212.8 kB
  • After compression 170.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 42.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 126.3 kB
  • After minification 126.3 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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. Texascollegeaccess.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.2 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (63%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Texas College Access. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

texascollegeaccess.org

texascollegeaccess.org

115 ms

home

home

613 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

198 ms

hotjar-2191475.js

hotjar-2191475.js

288 ms

css

css

166 ms

style.css

style.css

1069 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

467 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

463 ms

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ScriptResource.axd

465 ms

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ScriptResource.axd

459 ms

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jquery-3.3.1.js

154 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

818 ms

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jquery.appear.min.js

451 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

467 ms

jquery-cookie.min.js

jquery-cookie.min.js

505 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

639 ms

common.min.js

common.min.js

609 ms

jquery.validation.min.js

jquery.validation.min.js

688 ms

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jquery.stellar.min.js

689 ms

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686 ms

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693 ms

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735 ms

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857 ms

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851 ms

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937 ms

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880 ms

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902 ms

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jquery.counterup.min.js

906 ms

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theme.js

1273 ms

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view.home.js

946 ms

custom.js

custom.js

1271 ms

theme.init.js

theme.init.js

1011 ms

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modules.61e17720cf639c3e96a7.js

65 ms

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Accessibility Review

texascollegeaccess.org accessibility score

73

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.

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Best Practices

texascollegeaccess.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

texascollegeaccess.org 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 Texascollegeaccess.org 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 Texascollegeaccess.org 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

texascollegeaccess.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Texas College Access. 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: