Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

wilmington.edu

Wilmington College (Wilmington, Ohio) | Liberal Arts College

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wilmington.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wilmington.edu performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.766

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wilmington.edu

134 ms

www.wilmington.edu

86 ms

www.wilmington.edu

198 ms

css

117 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Wilmington.edu, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) belongs to the original domain Wilmington.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 922.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

8.8 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Wilmington.edu main page is 8.8 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 7.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 67.9 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 62.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 7.5 MB
  • After minification 7.5 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. Wilmington images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 373.3 kB

  • Original 626.9 kB
  • After minification 589.4 kB
  • After compression 253.6 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 373.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 459.0 kB

  • Original 511.3 kB
  • After minification 450.3 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. Wilmington.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 459.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (43%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wilmington. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wilmington.edu accessibility score

64

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

wilmington.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

wilmington.edu SEO score

78

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wilmington.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 Wilmington.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 data is detected on the main page of Wilmington. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: