Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

washjeff.edu

Washington & Jefferson College - Where Changemakers Get Their Start

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

840 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Washjeff.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

washjeff.edu performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,880 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

washjeff.edu

14 ms

www.washjeff.edu

474 ms

fonts.css

112 ms

modernizr-1.6.min.js

77 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Washjeff.edu, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (575 ms) belongs to the original domain Washjeff.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 415.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Washjeff.edu main page is 2.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 83.3 kB

  • Original 105.4 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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 83.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Washjeff images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 204.5 kB

  • Original 308.7 kB
  • After minification 251.2 kB
  • After compression 104.2 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 204.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 77.5 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 72.8 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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. Washjeff.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (36%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Washjeff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

washjeff.edu accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

washjeff.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

washjeff.edu SEO score

93

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

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 Washjeff.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 Washjeff.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 Washjeff. 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: