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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

calhoun.edu

Homepage - Calhoun Community College

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

462 ms

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About Website

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With locations in Decatur and Huntsville, Alabama, Calhoun is the largest of the two-year institutions comprising The Alabama Community College System. Calhoun is an open-admission, community-based, s...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Calhoun.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

calhoun.edu performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

calhoun.edu

1245 ms

normalize.css

60 ms

bootstrap.min.css

146 ms

tools.css

91 ms

site.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Calhoun.edu, 6% (6 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Calhoun.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 889.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Calhoun.edu main page is 6.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 29.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 99.4 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Calhoun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 370.7 kB

  • Original 571.4 kB
  • After minification 551.2 kB
  • After compression 200.6 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 370.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 389.7 kB

  • Original 457.1 kB
  • After minification 403.2 kB
  • After compression 67.4 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. Calhoun.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 389.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (59%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Calhoun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

calhoun.edu

calhoun.edu

1245 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

60 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

146 ms

tools.css

tools.css

91 ms

site.css

site.css

91 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

40 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

108 ms

modernizr.min.js

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76 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

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91 ms

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201 ms

jquery.matchHeight.min.js

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137 ms

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138 ms

site.js

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138 ms

superfish.css

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209 ms

superfish.min.js

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213 ms

jquery.history.js

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209 ms

moment.min.js

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210 ms

fullcalendar.min.js

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225 ms

jquery.qtip.min.js

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211 ms

fullcalendar.css

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223 ms

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jquery.qtip.min.css

223 ms

css

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34 ms

Calhoun_Community_College.js

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242 ms

dpx.js

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26 ms

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25 ms

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63 ms

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64 ms

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64 ms

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63 ms

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94 ms

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95 ms

CalhounScholarships.jpg

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420 ms

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409 ms

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266 ms

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407 ms

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408 ms

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17 ms

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404 ms

logo.jpg

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404 ms

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405 ms

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414 ms

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637 ms

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7 ms

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89 ms

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Accessibility Review

calhoun.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

calhoun.edu best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

calhoun.edu SEO score

84

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

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 Calhoun.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 Calhoun.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

calhoun.edu

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