Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

lecom.edu

Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) | Erie, PA

Page Load Speed

921 ms in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

587 ms

Page Rendered

271 ms

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About Website

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The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) produces more primary care physicians than any other U.S. medical school. Erie, PA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lecom.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 858 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lecom.edu performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lecom.edu

63 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

17 ms

font-awesome.min.css

18 ms

animate.css

21 ms

dg-grid.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Lecom.edu, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (161 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (43%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Lecom.edu main page is 2.3 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. 75% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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 45.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 976.7 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. LECOM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 363.1 kB

  • Original 557.3 kB
  • After minification 525.8 kB
  • After compression 194.3 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 363.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 560.8 kB

  • Original 687.2 kB
  • After minification 583.3 kB
  • After compression 126.4 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. Lecom.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 560.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (67%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LECOM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lecom.edu accessibility score

76

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

[role] values are not valid

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

lecom.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

lecom.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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