Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

pennhighlands.edu

Pennsylvania Highlands Community College | A Premier Two-Year College

Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

850 ms

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About Website

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Penn Highlands Community College is a two-year educational institution that provides access to affordable education to western Pennsylvania.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pennhighlands.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pennhighlands.edu performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value47.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value47,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.213

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value99.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pennhighlands.edu

32 ms

www.pennhighlands.edu

1628 ms

js

116 ms

style.min.css

74 ms

shortcodes.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 177 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (102 requests) were addressed to the original Pennhighlands.edu, 10% (18 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com and 10% (18 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Pennhighlands.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (27%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Pennhighlands.edu main page is 7.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 89.3 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 1.7 MB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 162.6 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Penn Highlands images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 918.2 kB
  • After minification 918.2 kB
  • After compression 907.6 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 315.9 kB
  • After minification 315.7 kB
  • After compression 271.3 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. Pennhighlands.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 44.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (56%)

Requests Now

168

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 168 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Penn Highlands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pennhighlands.edu accessibility score

70

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

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

pennhighlands.edu best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pennhighlands.edu SEO score

86

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

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 Pennhighlands.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 Pennhighlands.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 Penn Highlands. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: