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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

alumni.grinnell.edu

The Online Home for Grinnellians - Grinnell College

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

432 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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The online home for those who refer to themselves as a Grinnellian. Register for an event, make a gift, and connect with your fellow alumni.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alumni.grinnell.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 432 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alumni.grinnell.edu performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,210 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.311

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alumni.grinnell.edu

432 ms

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280 ms

stylesheet0.636206703858100000.css

66 ms

stylesheet15.636990535544730000.css

117 ms

stylesheet17.637607426205370000.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Alumni.grinnell.edu, 10% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Alumni.grinnell.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alumni.grinnell.edu main page is 3.0 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 232.6 kB

  • Original 291.7 kB
  • After minification 290.0 kB
  • After compression 59.1 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 232.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Alumni Grinnell images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 145.4 kB
  • After minification 145.2 kB
  • After compression 123.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 22.2 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 261 B

  • Original 284 B
  • After minification 23 B
  • After compression 23 B

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. Alumni.grinnell.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261 B or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (48%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alumni Grinnell. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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432 ms

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280 ms

stylesheet0.636206703858100000.css

stylesheet0.636206703858100000.css

66 ms

stylesheet15.636990535544730000.css

stylesheet15.636990535544730000.css

117 ms

stylesheet17.637607426205370000.css

stylesheet17.637607426205370000.css

93 ms

IE8Menu.css

IE8Menu.css

78 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

69 ms

BBAPI-min.js

BBAPI-min.js

82 ms

Bbnccore-min.js

Bbnccore-min.js

159 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

68 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

158 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

157 ms

additional-methods.js

additional-methods.js

105 ms

jquery.maskedinput-1.1.4.js

jquery.maskedinput-1.1.4.js

157 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

156 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

156 ms

webkit.js

webkit.js

157 ms

globalScripts.js

globalScripts.js

238 ms

miniDonationForm.js

miniDonationForm.js

236 ms

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239 ms

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236 ms

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logo_0.png

114 ms

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169 ms

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1097 ms

home_story_welcome_hero_banner.jpg

home_story_welcome_hero_banner.jpg

118 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

522 ms

KievitWebPro.woff

KievitWebPro.woff

43 ms

pencil.png

pencil.png

534 ms

visit.png

visit.png

29 ms

info.png

info.png

1045 ms

p.css

p.css

56 ms

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25 ms

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50 ms

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68 ms

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82 ms

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62 ms

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97 ms

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562 ms

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106 ms

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135 ms

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176 ms

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197 ms

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222 ms

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242 ms

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38 ms

Accessibility Review

alumni.grinnell.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

alumni.grinnell.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

SEO Factors

alumni.grinnell.edu SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Alumni.grinnell.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 Alumni.grinnell.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

alumni.grinnell.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alumni Grinnell. 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: