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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

helms.edu

Helms College | Programs in Culinary, HVAC, and Health Services

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

449 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit helms.edu now to see the best up-to-date Helms content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about helms.edu

Helms College offers certificates, diplomas, and degrees in careers like culinary, HVAC, and health services in Augusta and Macon, GA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helms.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 449 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

helms.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,930 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.helms.edu

449 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

15 ms

style.min.css

31 ms

classic-themes.min.css

43 ms

simple-banner.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Helms.edu, 8% (7 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Helms.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Helms.edu main page is 1.9 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. 80% 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 77.3 kB

  • Original 98.1 kB
  • After minification 96.1 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 77.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 90.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Helms images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 168.0 kB
  • After minification 168.0 kB
  • After compression 166.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 77.5 kB
  • After minification 75.4 kB
  • After compression 69.9 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. Helms.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (71%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helms. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.helms.edu

www.helms.edu

449 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

15 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

31 ms

classic-themes.min.css

classic-themes.min.css

43 ms

simple-banner.css

simple-banner.css

45 ms

style.css

style.css

36 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

35 ms

video-js.css

video-js.css

45 ms

lightgallery.min.css

lightgallery.min.css

46 ms

renew.css

renew.css

69 ms

style.css

style.css

47 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

52 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

60 ms

simple-banner.js

simple-banner.js

53 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

358 ms

custom.js

custom.js

59 ms

lightgallery-all.min.js

lightgallery-all.min.js

63 ms

video.js

video.js

94 ms

css

css

44 ms

cs.6f62d0f.js

cs.6f62d0f.js

89 ms

index.js

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89 ms

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90 ms

x.js

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90 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

407 ms

api.js

api.js

40 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

89 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

89 ms

index.js

index.js

96 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

100 ms

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

97 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

219 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

392 ms

hotjar-3004899.js

hotjar-3004899.js

214 ms

HelmsCollege_Logo_White.png

HelmsCollege_Logo_White.png

110 ms

Hamburger.png

Hamburger.png

110 ms

ProgramsIcon.png

ProgramsIcon.png

109 ms

header-qa-icn.png

header-qa-icn.png

109 ms

studentportal.png

studentportal.png

108 ms

menu-close-icn.png

menu-close-icn.png

109 ms

home-hat.jpeg

home-hat.jpeg

192 ms

home-car.jpeg

home-car.jpeg

192 ms

home-industrialtrade.jpeg

home-industrialtrade.jpeg

193 ms

College-Img.jpg

College-Img.jpg

209 ms

home-pinnacleclub.jpg

home-pinnacleclub.jpg

192 ms

home-edgarsabovebroad.jpg

home-edgarsabovebroad.jpg

600 ms

home-edgarsgrille.jpg

home-edgarsgrille.jpg

209 ms

home-bakehouse.jpg

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206 ms

alumniimages_380x5002.jpg

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238 ms

alumniimages_380x5003.jpg

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607 ms

alumniimages_380x500.jpg

alumniimages_380x500.jpg

241 ms

alumniimages_380x5004.jpg

alumniimages_380x5004.jpg

702 ms

HelmsCollegetag_4c_white.png

HelmsCollegetag_4c_white.png

239 ms

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241 ms

embed

embed

361 ms

embed

embed

359 ms

banner-cir-icn.png

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272 ms

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Subtraction-2.png

355 ms

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355 ms

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355 ms

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211 ms

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212 ms

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214 ms

HelveticaNeue-Bold.woff

HelveticaNeue-Bold.woff

636 ms

HelveticaNeueLight.woff

HelveticaNeueLight.woff

618 ms

HelveticaNeue-UltraLight.woff

HelveticaNeue-UltraLight.woff

724 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

210 ms

HelveticaNeueW01-Thin.woff

HelveticaNeueW01-Thin.woff

891 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

985 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1073 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

968 ms

modules.01a61edd76e9459a4476.js

modules.01a61edd76e9459a4476.js

168 ms

226 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

157 ms

js

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136 ms

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82 ms

66 ms

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38 ms

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33 ms

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Accessibility Review

helms.edu accessibility score

83

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

helms.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

helms.edu SEO score

75

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Helms.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 Helms.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

helms.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Helms. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: