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spfldcol.edu

Springfield College

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

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Springfield College is a private coeducational college located in Springfield, Mass. The College offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spfldcol.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spfldcol.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

spfldcol.edu

90 ms

springfield.edu

74 ms

system.base.css

14 ms

aggregator.css

16 ms

comment.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Spfldcol.edu, 55% (41 requests) were made to Springfield.edu and 14% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (630 ms) relates to the external source Wordpress.springfieldcollege.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 995.2 kB (49%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Spfldcol.edu main page is 2.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 708.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 6.5 kB, which is 11% 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 49.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 708.3 kB
  • After minification 686.5 kB

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. Spfldcol images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 471.6 kB

  • Original 707.9 kB
  • After minification 676.7 kB
  • After compression 236.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 471.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 452.5 kB

  • Original 536.4 kB
  • After minification 527.1 kB
  • After compression 83.9 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. Spfldcol.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 452.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (54%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spfldcol. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

spfldcol.edu SEO score

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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 Spfldcol.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 Spfldcol.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 Spfldcol. 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: