Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 59% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

smwc.edu

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Catholic Liberal Arts College

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

894 ms

Page Rendered

640 ms

About Website

Visit smwc.edu now to see the best up-to-date Smwc content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about smwc.edu

Aspire higher at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, a catholic liberal arts college founded in 1840. SMWC offers campus, distance and graduate programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smwc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 1.5 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

smwc.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smwc.edu

69 ms

www.smwc.edu

49 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

7 ms

style.min.css

16 ms

shortcodes.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Smwc.edu, 9% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) belongs to the original domain Smwc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Smwc.edu main page is 1.5 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 129.1 kB

  • Original 165.3 kB
  • After minification 160.6 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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 129.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Smwc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 179.9 kB
  • After minification 179.9 kB
  • After compression 155.4 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 24.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 85.5 kB
  • After minification 85.5 kB
  • After compression 60.9 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. Smwc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.6 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (56%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smwc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smwc.edu accessibility score

85

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 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.

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

smwc.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

smwc.edu SEO score

92

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

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