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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

hood.edu

Hood College | Frederick MD

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

870 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hood.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 870 ms and then it took 1.6 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

hood.edu performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.308

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hood.edu

870 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

9 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

50 ms

main.css

35 ms

landings_desktop.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Hood.edu, 17% (12 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (870 ms) belongs to the original domain Hood.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 343.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hood.edu main page is 3.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 44.7 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 37.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 71.6 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Hood images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 173.0 kB

  • Original 247.0 kB
  • After minification 178.6 kB
  • After compression 74.0 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 173.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 74.2 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. Hood.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (67%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hood. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hood.edu

hood.edu

870 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

9 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

ektron.javascript.ashx

50 ms

main.css

main.css

35 ms

landings_desktop.css

landings_desktop.css

27 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

22 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

25 ms

tabs.css

tabs.css

29 ms

liteframe.css

liteframe.css

29 ms

slider.css

slider.css

34 ms

tree.css

tree.css

40 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

39 ms

tabs.js

tabs.js

40 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

43 ms

liteframe.js

liteframe.js

41 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

114 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

114 ms

sidebarv2.js

sidebarv2.js

166 ms

ga.js

ga.js

28 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

46 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

135 ms

print.css

print.css

9 ms

js

js

50 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

collect

collect

73 ms

i.js

i.js

75 ms

top-slide-bg.gif

top-slide-bg.gif

71 ms

close-top-content-icon.gif

close-top-content-icon.gif

23 ms

loadmenu.gif

loadmenu.gif

21 ms

top-slide-menu-bg.gif

top-slide-menu-bg.gif

24 ms

main-logo.gif

main-logo.gif

23 ms

top-slide-menu-bg.gif

top-slide-menu-bg.gif

24 ms

mag-glass-search.gif

mag-glass-search.gif

24 ms

search-submit-btn.gif

search-submit-btn.gif

44 ms

top-nav-bg.gif

top-nav-bg.gif

42 ms

nav-separator.gif

nav-separator.gif

43 ms

homepage-bg-new.gif

homepage-bg-new.gif

44 ms

hood-print-banner.jpg

hood-print-banner.jpg

68 ms

14_Hood-Promise_Rotater.png

14_Hood-Promise_Rotater.png

93 ms

Rotator-Images_aaply.png

Rotator-Images_aaply.png

122 ms

Rotator-Images_picsBach.png

Rotator-Images_picsBach.png

70 ms

Rotator-Images_graduate[1].png

Rotator-Images_graduate[1].png

108 ms

Rotator-Images_15(1).jpg

Rotator-Images_15(1).jpg

94 ms

importantnews.gif

importantnews.gif

91 ms

16_FloReed_HP.jpeg

16_FloReed_HP.jpeg

93 ms

EventsHomepage.jpg

EventsHomepage.jpg

119 ms

footer-bg.gif

footer-bg.gif

104 ms

make-a-gift.gif

make-a-gift.gif

106 ms

fb-icon.gif

fb-icon.gif

105 ms

vimeo-icon.jpg

vimeo-icon.jpg

120 ms

twitter-icon.gif

twitter-icon.gif

118 ms

blogicon.jpg

blogicon.jpg

120 ms

Unknown-3.jpeg

Unknown-3.jpeg

119 ms

inst-icon.gif

inst-icon.gif

121 ms

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185 ms

js

js

45 ms

img

img

30 ms

close.gif

close.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

hood.edu accessibility score

93

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.

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hood.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

SEO Factors

hood.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hood.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hood.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

hood.edu

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