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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

westminster.edu

Westminster College

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

893 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westminster.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westminster.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.684

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westminster.edu

135 ms

www.westminster.edu

101 ms

index.cfm

204 ms

jquery-ui.css

38 ms

bootstrap.min.css

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Westminster.edu, 7% (4 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) belongs to the original domain Westminster.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 590.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westminster.edu main page is 2.8 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 4.3 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 30.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Westminster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 284.7 kB

  • Original 402.3 kB
  • After minification 335.3 kB
  • After compression 117.6 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 284.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 232.2 kB

  • Original 277.2 kB
  • After minification 251.2 kB
  • After compression 45.0 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. Westminster.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 232.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (52%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westminster. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

westminster.edu accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

westminster.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

westminster.edu SEO score

92

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

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 Westminster.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 Westminster.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 Westminster. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: