Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

vcccd.edu

Home | Ventura County Community College District

Page Load Speed

53.3 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

39.5 sec

Page Rendered

13.7 sec

vcccd.edu screenshot

About Website

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The Ventura County Community College District is a public community college district serving residents in Ventura County. The District's three colleges-Moorpark, Oxnard, and Ventura-offer programs for...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vcccd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 53.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vcccd.edu performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.373

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vcccd.edu

160 ms

www.vcccd.edu

826 ms

system.base.css

149 ms

system.menus.css

147 ms

system.messages.css

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Vcccd.edu, 3% (5 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17.7 sec) relates to the external source Www-test.vcccd.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (42%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Vcccd.edu main page is 3.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 104.6 kB

  • Original 125.1 kB
  • After minification 117.4 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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 104.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 81.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Vcccd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 305.2 kB

  • Original 447.2 kB
  • After minification 383.7 kB
  • After compression 141.9 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 305.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 945.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 898.6 kB
  • After compression 162.2 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. Vcccd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 945.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 98 (70%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vcccd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 54 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vcccd.edu accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

vcccd.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vcccd.edu SEO score

77

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 Vcccd.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 Vcccd.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 Vcccd. 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: