Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

albanyacademies.org

The Albany Academies | Private College Prep, Single-Gender Schools | NY

Page Load Speed

316 ms in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

259 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

albanyacademies.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Albany Academies content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about albanyacademies.org

Located in Albany, New York, The Albany Academies are independent college preparatory day schools with over 200 years educating preschool through grade 12.

Visit albanyacademies.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Albanyacademies.org page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 259 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

albanyacademies.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

albanyacademies.org

57 ms

www.albanyacademies.org

36 ms

page

18 ms

css

24 ms

page-framework.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Albanyacademies.org, 76% (19 requests) were made to Mediafiles01.myschoolcdn.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (79 ms) relates to the external source Mediafiles01.myschoolcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 548.0 kB (63%)

Content Size

874.6 kB

After Optimization

326.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Albanyacademies.org main page is 874.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 357.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 194.1 kB

  • Original 217.0 kB
  • After minification 198.4 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 194.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 174.3 kB
  • After minification 174.3 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. Albany Academies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 249.3 kB

  • Original 357.1 kB
  • After minification 357.1 kB
  • After compression 107.8 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 249.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 104.6 kB

  • Original 126.2 kB
  • After minification 124.4 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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. Albanyacademies.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (18%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Albany Academies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

albanyacademies.org accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

albanyacademies.org best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

albanyacademies.org SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Albanyacademies.org 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 Albanyacademies.org 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 Albany Academies. 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: