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conncoll.edu

Home · Connecticut College

Page Load Speed

57.3 sec in total

First Response

110 ms

Resources Loaded

35.2 sec

Page Rendered

21.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Conncoll.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 110 ms and then it took 57.2 sec 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

conncoll.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

conncoll.edu

110 ms

www.conncoll.edu

404 ms

modernizr.custom.js

51 ms

jquery-2.1.3.min.js

304 ms

site.css

303 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Conncoll.edu, 5% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.2 sec) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 526.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Conncoll.edu main page is 6.3 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. 85% 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 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 97.0 kB

  • Original 114.4 kB
  • After minification 108.9 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. 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 97.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Conncoll images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 239.5 kB

  • Original 381.0 kB
  • After minification 380.8 kB
  • After compression 141.6 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 239.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 166.0 kB

  • Original 194.5 kB
  • After minification 191.8 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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. Conncoll.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 166.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (8%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

85

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Conncoll. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

conncoll.edu SEO score

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