Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

carleton.edu

Carleton College: A Leading Liberal Arts College in Northfield, Minnesota

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

750 ms

Page Rendered

174 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Carleton content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about carleton.edu

Ranked among the nation’s best colleges, Carleton College is a small, private liberal arts college in the historic river town of Northfield, Minnesota.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carleton.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 924 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carleton.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.143

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carleton.edu

98 ms

www.carleton.edu

248 ms

2a48c04002f0b11b01fc4a61ef38c34e_1450435901.css

148 ms

require.js

130 ms

analytics.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Carleton.edu, 58% (7 requests) were made to Apps.carleton.edu and 17% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (248 ms) belongs to the original domain Carleton.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 264.2 kB (65%)

Content Size

404.8 kB

After Optimization

140.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Carleton.edu main page is 404.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 147.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 85.4 kB

  • Original 147.1 kB
  • After minification 147.1 kB
  • After compression 61.7 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. 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 85.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 67.7 kB
  • After minification 18.2 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. Obviously, Carleton needs image optimization as it can save up to 49.5 kB or 73% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 92.4 kB

  • Original 135.8 kB
  • After minification 135.8 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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 92.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 50.3 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. Carleton.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carleton. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

carleton.edu accessibility score

86

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

carleton.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

carleton.edu SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Carleton.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 Carleton.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 Carleton. 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: