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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

southwesternacademy.edu

Home - Southwestern Academy

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

708 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southwesternacademy.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 5.6 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

southwesternacademy.edu performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value55.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value57.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value48,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.107

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value98.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southwesternacademy.edu

253 ms

swfobject_modified.js

165 ms

swa.css

224 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

197 ms

ga.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Southwesternacademy.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Adobe.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southwesternacademy.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 435.1 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southwesternacademy.edu main page is 1.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 18.9 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 14.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 378.4 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, Southwestern Academy needs image optimization as it can save up to 378.4 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 25.1 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Southwesternacademy.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 94% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (28%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

39

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southwestern Academy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southwesternacademy.edu

southwesternacademy.edu

253 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

165 ms

swa.css

swa.css

224 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

197 ms

ga.js

ga.js

33 ms

get_flash_player.gif

get_flash_player.gif

26 ms

proudmembersm.jpg

proudmembersm.jpg

145 ms

blogbadge_bluev.png

blogbadge_bluev.png

21 ms

h_logo.jpg

h_logo.jpg

61 ms

h_contact.jpg

h_contact.jpg

67 ms

h_email.jpg

h_email.jpg

57 ms

h_download.jpg

h_download.jpg

67 ms

h_search.jpg

h_search.jpg

111 ms

h_sitemap.jpg

h_sitemap.jpg

112 ms

h_3.jpg

h_3.jpg

120 ms

h_photo1.jpg

h_photo1.jpg

133 ms

h_photo2.jpg

h_photo2.jpg

199 ms

h_photo3.jpg

h_photo3.jpg

219 ms

h_photo4.jpg

h_photo4.jpg

219 ms

h_photo5.jpg

h_photo5.jpg

166 ms

h_photo6.jpg

h_photo6.jpg

175 ms

about.gif

about.gif

197 ms

campuses.gif

campuses.gif

221 ms

academics.gif

academics.gif

230 ms

life.gif

life.gif

261 ms

admissions.gif

admissions.gif

263 ms

boarding.gif

boarding.gif

291 ms

h_main1.jpg

h_main1.jpg

277 ms

h_main2.jpg

h_main2.jpg

279 ms

h_main4.jpg

h_main4.jpg

338 ms

h_main5xxHMWK.jpg

h_main5xxHMWK.jpg

329 ms

h_families.jpg

h_families.jpg

327 ms

h_students.jpg

h_students.jpg

332 ms

h_alumni.jpg

h_alumni.jpg

333 ms

SunSpots%20larger%20logo.jpg

SunSpots%20larger%20logo.jpg

4283 ms

FacebookButtonRevised2.jpg

FacebookButtonRevised2.jpg

454 ms

twitter-logo%20copyx.png

twitter-logo%20copyx.png

399 ms

Youku%20badge.png

Youku%20badge.png

484 ms

blog-icon2.png

blog-icon2.png

387 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

26 ms

about_over.gif

about_over.gif

57 ms

campuses_over.gif

campuses_over.gif

66 ms

academics_over.gif

academics_over.gif

57 ms

life_over.gif

life_over.gif

67 ms

admissions_over.gif

admissions_over.gif

57 ms

boarding_over.gif

boarding_over.gif

75 ms

h_families_over.jpg

h_families_over.jpg

115 ms

h_students_over.jpg

h_students_over.jpg

111 ms

h_alumni_over.jpg

h_alumni_over.jpg

112 ms

h_contact_over.jpg

h_contact_over.jpg

127 ms

h_email_over.jpg

h_email_over.jpg

129 ms

h_sitemap_over.jpg

h_sitemap_over.jpg

148 ms

h_download_over.jpg

h_download_over.jpg

167 ms

h_search_over.jpg

h_search_over.jpg

166 ms

h_faq-video_over.jpg

h_faq-video_over.jpg

170 ms

Accessibility Review

southwesternacademy.edu accessibility score

78

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

southwesternacademy.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

southwesternacademy.edu SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southwesternacademy.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Southwesternacademy.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

southwesternacademy.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Southwestern Academy. 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: