Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

college.holycross.edu

Holy Cross | Web communications

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

77 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing College Holy Cross content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about college.holycross.edu

Established in 1843, the College of the Holy Cross is an exclusively undergraduate liberal arts college that embraces a Catholic, Jesuit identity.

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Key Findings

We analyzed College.holycross.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

college.holycross.edu performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

college.holycross.edu

76 ms

Popup.js

353 ms

RollOvers.js

137 ms

rollovers-global.js

198 ms

global_layout.css

401 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original College.holycross.edu, 96% (22 requests) were made to Holycross.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (908 ms) relates to the external source Holycross.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.9 kB (77%)

Content Size

11.5 kB

After Optimization

2.6 kB

In fact, the total size of College.holycross.edu main page is 11.5 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. HTML takes 11.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. 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 8.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

college.holycross.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

college.holycross.edu best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

college.holycross.edu SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise College.holycross.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 College.holycross.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 College Holy Cross. 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: