Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

shop.colum.edu

Columbia College Chicago - Columbia College Chicago

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

518 ms

shop.colum.edu screenshot

About Website

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ShopColumbia at Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery: Presenting the best of what Columbia College Chicago’s students, alumni, faculty and staff create.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shop.colum.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shop.colum.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shop.colum.edu

130 ms

powr.js

41 ms

css

44 ms

bootstrap-min.css

107 ms

style.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Shop.colum.edu, 80% (60 requests) were made to Cdn.shoplightspeed.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (657 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.shoplightspeed.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 195.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

936.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Shop.colum.edu main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 897.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 68.8 kB

  • Original 78.0 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 19.7 kB, which is 25% 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 68.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 123.0 kB

  • Original 897.4 kB
  • After minification 774.4 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, Shop Colum needs image optimization as it can save up to 123.0 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 148.8 kB
  • After minification 148.8 kB
  • After compression 147.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Shop.colum.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (32%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shop Colum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shop.colum.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a valid value for its [lang] attribute.

Best Practices

shop.colum.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

shop.colum.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

    US

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shop.colum.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Shop.colum.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 Shop Colum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: