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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

whittier.edu

Whittier College | 4-Year Private Liberal Arts College

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

389 ms

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About Website

Visit whittier.edu now to see the best up-to-date Whittier content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about whittier.edu

Whittier College is a 4-year private liberal arts college located in Southern California between bustling Los Angeles and beautiful Orange County.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whittier.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whittier.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whittier.edu

44 ms

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28 ms

whittier-overrides.css

28 ms

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43 ms

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61 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Whittier.edu, 5% (4 requests) were made to Kit-free.fontawesome.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Siteimproveanalytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whittier.edu main page is 3.0 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 84.1 kB

  • Original 109.8 kB
  • After minification 98.5 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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 84.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 223.0 kB
  • After minification 223.0 kB
  • After compression 201.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 89.7 kB
  • After minification 89.7 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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 18.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (50%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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44 ms

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28 ms

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28 ms

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43 ms

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61 ms

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130 ms

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63 ms

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892 ms

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91 ms

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88 ms

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134 ms

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135 ms

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93 ms

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58 ms

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98 ms

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79 ms

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40 ms

gtm.js

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82 ms

logo.png

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9 ms

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10 ms

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1108 ms

1076 ms

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1075 ms

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119 ms

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108 ms

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108 ms

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105 ms

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106 ms

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105 ms

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110 ms

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108 ms

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1058 ms

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590 ms

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290 ms

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288 ms

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290 ms

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455 ms

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355 ms

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350 ms

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348 ms

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350 ms

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354 ms

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178 ms

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171 ms

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143 ms

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146 ms

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193 ms

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180 ms

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195 ms

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194 ms

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194 ms

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220 ms

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36 ms

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7 ms

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16 ms

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34 ms

Accessibility Review

whittier.edu accessibility score

90

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

75

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

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

    EN

  • 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 it matches the claimed language. 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

whittier.edu

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: