Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 72

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

slc.edu

Welcome to Sarah Lawrence College

Page Load Speed

28.6 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

16.5 sec

Page Rendered

12 sec

slc.edu screenshot

About Website

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Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, offers a unique, multidisciplinary liberal arts education for an inclusive and intellectually curious community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 28.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

slc.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,530 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

slc.edu

165 ms

www.sarahlawrence.edu

133 ms

www.sarahlawrence.edu

813 ms

modernizr.min.js.pagespeed.ce.psG73XGRsL.js

529 ms

A.prod.min.css,qv=2354723.pagespeed.cf.w5tKo9Ljhe.css

733 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Slc.edu, 69% (31 requests) were made to Sarahlawrence.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.1 sec) relates to the external source Apply.slc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 928.6 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Slc.edu main page is 2.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 208.9 kB

  • Original 262.8 kB
  • After minification 250.2 kB
  • After compression 53.9 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 208.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Slc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 343.3 kB

  • Original 575.6 kB
  • After minification 575.3 kB
  • After compression 232.3 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 343.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 372.3 kB

  • Original 449.3 kB
  • After minification 447.8 kB
  • After compression 76.9 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. Slc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 372.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (35%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

slc.edu accessibility score

91

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.

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

Best Practices

slc.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

slc.edu SEO score

72

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

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 Slc.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 Slc.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 Slc. 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: