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northwesterncollege.edu

Training for Healthcare Careers | Northwestern College

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

312 ms

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Certificate and degree programs in medical assisting, coding and billing, dental, nursing, radiology and healthcare IT. Located in Chicago suburbs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northwesterncollege.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 3.7 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

northwesterncollege.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

northwesterncollege.edu

101 ms

www.nc.edu

1203 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

101 ms

fullcalendar.css

95 ms

easy-author-image.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Northwesterncollege.edu, 64% (63 requests) were made to Nc.edu and 4% (4 requests) were made to Match.adsrvr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Nc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (32%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Northwesterncollege.edu main page is 4.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 143.2 kB

  • Original 185.8 kB
  • After minification 185.7 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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 143.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Northwestern College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 826.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 419.8 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 826.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 303.3 kB

  • Original 358.4 kB
  • After minification 350.5 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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. Northwesterncollege.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 303.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (49%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northwestern 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

northwesterncollege.edu SEO score

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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 Northwesterncollege.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 Northwesterncollege.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 Northwestern College. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: