Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ws.edu

Walters State Community College

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

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Write your story at Walters State Community College, a leading public institution in Morristown, Tennessee. WSCC offers many areas of study to help meet the educational needs of Eastern Tennessee.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ws.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ws.edu performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ws.edu

61 ms

ws.edu

159 ms

jquery.dataTables.min.css

41 ms

main.css

118 ms

oustyles.css

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Ws.edu, 9% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (994 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.yoshki.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ws.edu main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 107.1 kB

  • Original 125.5 kB
  • After minification 103.6 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.9 kB, which is 17% 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 107.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Ws images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 619.5 kB
  • After minification 619.5 kB
  • After compression 617.5 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

-29%

Potential reduce by 47.2 kB

  • Original 160.2 kB
  • After minification 147.6 kB
  • After compression 113.1 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. Ws.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.2 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (40%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ws. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ws.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

ws.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ws.edu SEO score

86

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Ws.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 Ws.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 Ws. 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: