Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

admission.dean.edu

Admissions | Dean College

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

453 ms

admission.dean.edu screenshot

About Website

Visit admission.dean.edu now to see the best up-to-date Admission Dean content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about admission.dean.edu

We are pleased you are interested in learning more about admission to Dean College. Our web pages provide information to familiarize you with our programs and the admissions process.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admission.dean.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 2.4 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

admission.dean.edu performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admission.dean.edu

45 ms

admissions.aspx

1028 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

60 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

59 ms

all.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Admission.dean.edu, 82% (82 requests) were made to Dean.edu and 3% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Dean.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (45%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Admission.dean.edu main page is 2.9 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. 75% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 186.1 kB

  • Original 233.6 kB
  • After minification 214.3 kB
  • After compression 47.5 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 186.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 170.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, Admission Dean needs image optimization as it can save up to 170.4 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 824.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 368.9 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 824.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 124.8 kB

  • Original 147.7 kB
  • After minification 123.4 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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. Admission.dean.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 124.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (42%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admission Dean. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

admission.dean.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

admission.dean.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

admission.dean.edu SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Admission.dean.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Admission.dean.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 Admission Dean. 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: