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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

wdt.edu

Western Dakota Technical College | Online College Classes |

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

598 ms

wdt.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Wdt content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about wdt.edu

Western Dakota Technical College is the only technical college that serves western South Dakota. Learn on campus or take online college classes to get your degree while you live life.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wdt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wdt.edu performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,990 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.313

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wdt.edu

112 ms

wdt.edu

174 ms

www.wdt.edu

1023 ms

gtm.js

51 ms

css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Wdt.edu, 16% (16 requests) were made to Static.matterport.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.userway.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Wdt.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 703.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

8.6 MB

After Optimization

7.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wdt.edu main page is 8.6 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 7.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 214.2 kB

  • Original 258.6 kB
  • After minification 254.0 kB
  • After compression 44.4 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 214.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 481.9 kB

  • Original 7.4 MB
  • After minification 7.0 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. Wdt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 849.2 kB
  • After minification 846.0 kB
  • After compression 842.2 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 14 B

  • Original 45.3 kB
  • After minification 45.3 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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. Wdt.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (25%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wdt. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wdt.edu

wdt.edu

112 ms

wdt.edu

wdt.edu

174 ms

www.wdt.edu

www.wdt.edu

1023 ms

gtm.js

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51 ms

css

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37 ms

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34 ms

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94 ms

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33 ms

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227 ms

WDT_College-Logo.svg

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385 ms

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512 ms

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1073 ms

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1313 ms

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1952 ms

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1723 ms

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2336 ms

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1896 ms

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2119 ms

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2617 ms

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2580 ms

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2936 ms

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3105 ms

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4298 ms

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296 ms

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slick.min.js

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global.js

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3614 ms

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445 ms

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9 ms

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9 ms

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56 ms

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3549 ms

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339 ms

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Accessibility Review

wdt.edu accessibility score

69

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

wdt.edu best practices score

67

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

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

wdt.edu SEO score

79

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 Wdt.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 Wdt.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

wdt.edu

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