Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

snow.edu

Home of the Badgers | Snow College

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

364 ms

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About Website

Welcome to snow.edu homepage info - get ready to check Snow best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about snow.edu

Snow College provides quality educational 2 and 4 year degree programs, with campuses in Ephraim and Richfield, Utah. Snow College is ranked as the number one college in America for student success.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Snow.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

snow.edu performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,620 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.32

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

snow.edu

225 ms

www.snow.edu

666 ms

bootstrap.min.css

381 ms

focuspoint.css

165 ms

swiper.min.css

220 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original Snow.edu, 6% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Trumba.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Snow.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 700.6 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

955.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Snow.edu main page is 1.7 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 769.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 43.3 kB

  • Original 54.7 kB
  • After minification 50.2 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 43.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 769.6 kB
  • After minification 717.4 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. Snow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 414.9 kB

  • Original 602.7 kB
  • After minification 599.3 kB
  • After compression 187.8 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 414.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 190.2 kB

  • Original 228.7 kB
  • After minification 204.5 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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. Snow.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (31%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

91

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Snow. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

snow.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

snow.edu best practices score

85

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

snow.edu SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Snow.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 Snow.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 Snow. 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: