Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

explore.ecpi.edu

Accredited, Military Friendly and Affordable! | ECPI University

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

804 ms

explore.ecpi.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Explore.ecpi.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

explore.ecpi.edu performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value45,870 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.958

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value62.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

explore.ecpi.edu

121 ms

explore.ecpi.edu

92 ms

style.css

52 ms

bootstrap.min.css

285 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

282 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Explore.ecpi.edu, 8% (10 requests) were made to Trkn.us and 3% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Trkn.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

583.6 kB

After Optimization

469.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Explore.ecpi.edu main page is 583.6 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 252.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 63.4 kB

  • Original 76.0 kB
  • After minification 66.4 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 9.6 kB, which is 13% 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 63.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 224.7 kB
  • After minification 196.6 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, Explore ECPI needs image optimization as it can save up to 28.2 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 252.5 kB
  • After minification 251.9 kB
  • After compression 232.2 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 30.3 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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. Explore.ecpi.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 89 (72%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore ECPI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

explore.ecpi.edu accessibility score

83

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 [lang] attribute

Best Practices

explore.ecpi.edu best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

explore.ecpi.edu SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Explore.ecpi.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 Explore.ecpi.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 Explore ECPI. 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: