Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

public.pct.edu

General Public | Pennsylvania College of Technology

Page Load Speed

924 ms in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

664 ms

Page Rendered

187 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Public.pct.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 851 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

public.pct.edu performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

public.pct.edu

73 ms

public.pct.edu

209 ms

1.3.2.css

38 ms

custom.css

64 ms

jquery1.11.1.js

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Public.pct.edu, 9% (3 requests) were made to Themes.googleusercontent.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (209 ms) belongs to the original domain Public.pct.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.8 kB (46%)

Content Size

298.4 kB

After Optimization

160.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Public.pct.edu main page is 298.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 143.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 10.8 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 1.2 kB, which is 11% 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 8.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 87.4 kB
  • After minification 85.7 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. Public Pct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 81.8 kB

  • Original 143.2 kB
  • After minification 138.3 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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 81.8 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 43.5 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Public.pct.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (54%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Public Pct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

public.pct.edu accessibility score

92

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

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

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>).

Best Practices

public.pct.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

public.pct.edu SEO score

74

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

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 Public.pct.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 Public.pct.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 Public Pct. 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: