Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

whittier.edu

Whittier College | 4-Year Private Liberal Arts College

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

366 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whittier.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whittier.edu performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.172

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whittier.edu

1861 ms

system.base.css

53 ms

system.menus.css

55 ms

system.messages.css

55 ms

system.theme.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 137 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (120 requests) were addressed to the original Whittier.edu, 4% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Whittier.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (11%)

Content Size

9.2 MB

After Optimization

8.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Whittier.edu main page is 9.2 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. 80% 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 8.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 116.9 kB

  • Original 133.9 kB
  • After minification 118.1 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.8 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 116.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 332.9 kB

  • Original 8.3 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Whittier images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 383.6 kB

  • Original 528.8 kB
  • After minification 445.3 kB
  • After compression 145.2 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 383.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 207.6 kB

  • Original 250.6 kB
  • After minification 202.1 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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. Whittier.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 207.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (59%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whittier. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 39 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

whittier.edu accessibility score

91

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

whittier.edu best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

whittier.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Whittier.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 Whittier.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 Whittier. 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: