Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

marylandgcc.org

Home - Maryland GCC

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

348 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

351 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marylandgcc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 348 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marylandgcc.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,180 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.marylandgcc.org

348 ms

nucleo-glyph.css

109 ms

nucleo-outline.css

128 ms

nucleo-mini.css

138 ms

css2

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Marylandgcc.org, 38% (19 requests) were made to Static.clubessential.com and 18% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (348 ms) belongs to the original domain Marylandgcc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

521.4 kB

After Optimization

421.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Marylandgcc.org main page is 521.4 kB. 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. Javascripts take 271.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 72.8 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 59.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 41.7 kB
  • After minification 29.5 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. Obviously, Maryland GCC needs image optimization as it can save up to 12.2 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 271.1 kB
  • After minification 271.1 kB
  • After compression 254.6 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 134.1 kB
  • After minification 134.1 kB
  • After compression 122.6 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. Marylandgcc.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (70%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maryland GCC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

marylandgcc.org accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

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

marylandgcc.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

marylandgcc.org SEO score

83

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Marylandgcc.org 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 Marylandgcc.org 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 Maryland GCC. 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: