Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

oxy.edu

Occidental College | The Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

oxy.edu screenshot

About Website

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A nationally renowned liberal arts college integrating the cultural and intellectual resources of Los Angeles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oxy.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oxy.edu performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,220 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.346

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oxy.edu

256 ms

www.oxy.edu

313 ms

css_VPJe8HZz0QGUmf_BCCbezouJ34m-pnzOUK56ssQ7YEk.css

135 ms

css_LkT2tBW2b9mm33BBiHQmCb6gFDMFmCk7cqO--SigesY.css

137 ms

css_FgstZQMuBVxlFEkWjLXxfWz7ZneTDxaLNeMk41Ho2Bg.css

135 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Oxy.edu, 55% (29 requests) were made to Cache.oxy.edu and 15% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (313 ms) belongs to the original domain Oxy.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 384.9 kB (50%)

Content Size

769.8 kB

After Optimization

384.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Oxy.edu main page is 769.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 298.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.0 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 18.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 288.3 kB
  • After minification 269.6 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. Oxy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 218.4 kB

  • Original 298.2 kB
  • After minification 250.6 kB
  • After compression 79.8 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 218.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 129.5 kB

  • Original 158.2 kB
  • After minification 156.9 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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. Oxy.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (31%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oxy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

oxy.edu accessibility score

77

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

oxy.edu best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

oxy.edu SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Oxy.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 Oxy.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 description is not detected on the main page of Oxy. 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: