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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

gtcc.edu

Home | GTCC

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gtcc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gtcc.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.211

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gtcc.edu

74 ms

home.gtcc.edu

153 ms

css

22 ms

vfb-pro-payments.css

45 ms

public.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gtcc.edu, 42% (30 requests) were made to Home.gtcc.edu and 28% (20 requests) were made to Home.wp.gtcc.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (722 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gtcc.edu main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 902.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 98.2 kB
  • After minification 96.3 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 83.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 902.1 kB
  • After minification 880.1 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. GTCC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 319.8 kB

  • Original 488.0 kB
  • After minification 486.6 kB
  • After compression 168.2 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 319.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 607.3 kB

  • Original 715.1 kB
  • After minification 641.9 kB
  • After compression 107.8 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. Gtcc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 607.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (45%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GTCC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gtcc.edu

gtcc.edu

74 ms

home.gtcc.edu

home.gtcc.edu

153 ms

css

css

22 ms

vfb-pro-payments.css

vfb-pro-payments.css

45 ms

public.css

public.css

76 ms

grid.css

grid.css

75 ms

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base.css

77 ms

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113 ms

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149 ms

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75 ms

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126 ms

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198 ms

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125 ms

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125 ms

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165 ms

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161 ms

avia.js

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347 ms

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181 ms

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347 ms

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177 ms

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343 ms

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342 ms

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23 ms

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46 ms

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58 ms

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42 ms

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42 ms

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188 ms

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342 ms

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179 ms

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338 ms

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391 ms

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338 ms

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392 ms

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392 ms

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Accessibility Review

gtcc.edu accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

gtcc.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gtcc.edu SEO score

73

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

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 Gtcc.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 Gtcc.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

gtcc.edu

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