Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

walshcollege.edu

Walsh College | Walsh - Graduate & Undergraduate Business Degrees

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

339 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

768 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Walshcollege.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 339 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

walshcollege.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.walshcollege.edu

339 ms

design001.css

147 ms

main.css

112 ms

namespace.js

73 ms

json2.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Walshcollege.edu, 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Cc.chango.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Walshcollege.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (17%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Walshcollege.edu main page is 6.8 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 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 136.1 kB

  • Original 176.5 kB
  • After minification 169.0 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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 136.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 277.4 kB

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Walsh College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 598.9 kB

  • Original 890.1 kB
  • After minification 880.4 kB
  • After compression 291.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 598.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 123.7 kB

  • Original 142.3 kB
  • After minification 105.7 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. Walshcollege.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 123.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (66%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Walsh College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

walshcollege.edu accessibility score

80

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

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

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

walshcollege.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

walshcollege.edu SEO score

77

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

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 Walshcollege.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 Walshcollege.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 Walsh College. 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: