Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

goucher.edu

Goucher College: Maryland's Innovative Liberal Arts College

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

532 ms

goucher.edu screenshot

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An innovative liberal arts college and graduate school in Baltimore, Maryland, that cultivates global changemakers and where every undergraduate student studies abroad.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goucher.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goucher.edu performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,460 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

goucher.edu

77 ms

www.goucher.edu

294 ms

css

93 ms

main.css

37 ms

modernizr.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Goucher.edu, 12% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to D10lpsik1i8c69.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source App.heyhalda.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 565.4 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Goucher.edu main page is 2.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 60.7 kB

  • Original 75.4 kB
  • After minification 63.3 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 12.1 kB, which is 16% 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 60.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 968.7 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. Goucher images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 470.4 kB

  • Original 900.1 kB
  • After minification 899.6 kB
  • After compression 429.7 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 470.4 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. Goucher.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (46%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Goucher. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

goucher.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

goucher.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

goucher.edu SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Goucher.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 Goucher.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 Goucher. 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: