Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

admission.rhodes.edu

Admission and Aid | Rhodes College

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

503 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admission.rhodes.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admission.rhodes.edu performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value42.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admission.rhodes.edu

41 ms

admission

490 ms

css_lQaZfjVpwP_oGNqdtWCSpJT1EMqXdMiU84ekLLxQnc4.css

12 ms

css_PHYuvhc8KuIhdLUkKlqHGz3L0PgwPO5qhcD1s7_IbBI.css

35 ms

css_-JTb2EdH_CAuZDlMREYfIo-vRBnHvmeGOOqwWoz8ves.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Admission.rhodes.edu, 77% (41 requests) were made to Rhodes.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (490 ms) relates to the external source Rhodes.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 940.8 kB (26%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Admission.rhodes.edu main page is 3.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 40.8 kB

  • Original 52.0 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 40.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 201.1 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Admission Rhodes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 493.9 kB

  • Original 673.8 kB
  • After minification 613.1 kB
  • After compression 179.8 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 493.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 204.9 kB

  • Original 243.3 kB
  • After minification 234.7 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. Admission.rhodes.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 204.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (60%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admission Rhodes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

admission.rhodes.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

admission.rhodes.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

admission.rhodes.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Admission.rhodes.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 Admission.rhodes.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 Admission Rhodes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: