Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

connect.grace.edu

Undergraduate Admissions - Grace College & Seminary

Page Load Speed

178 ms in total

First Response

19 ms

Resources Loaded

92 ms

Page Rendered

67 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connect.grace.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 19 ms and then it took 159 ms 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Connect.grace.edu rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

connect.grace.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,110 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

connect.grace.edu

19 ms

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10 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Connect.grace.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19 ms) belongs to the original domain Connect.grace.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 889 B (13%)

Content Size

6.9 kB

After Optimization

6.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Connect.grace.edu main page is 6.9 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 881 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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 881 B or 47% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8 B

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Connect Grace images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connect Grace. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

connect.grace.edu accessibility score

80

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

connect.grace.edu best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

connect.grace.edu SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Connect.grace.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 Connect.grace.edu main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Connect Grace. 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: