Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

mycollege.com

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Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

666 ms

Page Rendered

333 ms

mycollege.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mycollege.com page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 999 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mycollege.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,170 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.469

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mycollege.com

185 ms

www.ocm.com

53 ms

375badf75cc726f0564e.css

19 ms

ocm

50 ms

CWPHeroAug26

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mycollege.com, 66% (64 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 26% (25 requests) were made to Ocm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (267 ms) relates to the external source Ocm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 800.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

7.2 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Mycollege.com main page is 7.2 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. 85% 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 6.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 567.0 kB

  • Original 649.6 kB
  • After minification 649.6 kB
  • After compression 82.6 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 567.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 233.1 kB

  • Original 6.5 MB
  • After minification 6.3 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. My College images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (66%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mycollege.com accessibility score

84

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

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

mycollege.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mycollege.com SEO score

92

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

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 Mycollege.com 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 Mycollege.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of My College. 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: