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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202638 issues · 95 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on ccac.edu, 15 of them high impact, across 95 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.6 s1.9 sMay 16Oct 313.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20262.1 s
May 23, 20262.2 s
May 30, 20262.5 s
Jun 6, 20262.8 s
Jun 13, 20263.0 s
Jun 20, 20263.0 s
Jun 27, 20263.0 s
Jul 4, 20262.9 s
Jul 11, 20262.9 s
Jul 18, 20263.0 s
Jul 25, 20263.1 s
Aug 1, 20263.1 s
Aug 8, 20263.1 s
Aug 15, 20263.1 s
Aug 22, 20263.0 s
Aug 29, 20263.0 s
Sep 5, 20263.2 s
Sep 12, 20263.3 s
Sep 19, 20263.3 s
Sep 26, 20263.2 s
Oct 3, 20263.1 s
Oct 10, 20263.1 s
Oct 17, 20263.1 s
Oct 24, 20263.1 s
Oct 31, 20263.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
193 ms135 msMay 16Oct 31186 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026154 ms
May 23, 2026154 ms
May 30, 2026152 ms
Jun 6, 2026151 ms
Jun 13, 2026154 ms
Jun 20, 2026163 ms
Jun 27, 2026170 ms
Jul 4, 2026173 ms
Jul 11, 2026168 ms
Jul 18, 2026162 ms
Jul 25, 2026156 ms
Aug 1, 2026155 ms
Aug 8, 2026153 ms
Aug 15, 2026146 ms
Aug 22, 2026145 ms
Aug 29, 2026142 ms
Sep 5, 2026146 ms
Sep 12, 2026147 ms
Sep 19, 2026162 ms
Sep 26, 2026172 ms
Oct 3, 2026174 ms
Oct 10, 2026178 ms
Oct 17, 2026170 ms
Oct 24, 2026183 ms
Oct 31, 2026186 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of ccac.edu (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. ccac.edu at 1.3 s1.3 s
  2. ccac.edu at 2.6 s2.6 s
  3. ccac.edu at 4.0 s4.0 s
  4. ccac.edu at 5.3 s5.3 s
  5. ccac.edu at 6.6 s6.6 s
  6. ccac.edu at 7.9 s7.9 s
  7. ccac.edu at 9.2 s9.2 s
  8. ccac.edu at 10.6 s10.6 s

ccac.edu does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

10 to fix28
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.2 s · 971 KiB

    About 971 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.2 s · 942 KiB

    20 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (942 KiB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.1 s

    16 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.1 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 28

    28/100

    Your mobile performance score is 28. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, TikTok and 451.io and others), adding 1.9 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 452 ms

    452 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 452 ms of main-thread work and 821 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 72 KiB

    About 72 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    200 ms · 261 KiB

    4 images could be 261 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 2.8 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 451.io adds 123 ms

    123 ms

    451.io costs a phone 123 ms of main-thread work and 590 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Font display

    250 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 250 ms).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    200 ms · 23 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

  • 13 long tasks on the main thread

    13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 146 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify CSS

    10 ms · 4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

14 to fix33
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user LCP: 4.3 s

    4.3 s

    Real visitors wait 4.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.53

    0.53

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.53 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 3.7 s

    3.7 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 3.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 2.9 s

    2.9 s

    Real visitors wait 2.9 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.9 s

    9.9 s

    Your largest element takes 9.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Speed Index: 16.9 s

    16.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 16.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 22.4 s

    22.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 22.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 1.004

    1.004

    The layout shifts by 1.004 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Tap response (INP) got 20% slower for real visitors

    +20%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 154 ms to 186 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 52% slower for real visitors

    +52%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 3.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 372 ms

    372 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 372 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 16 images without width and height

    16 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

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  • Real-user INP: 197 ms

    197 ms

    Real visitors wait 197 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 8.4 MB in 158 requests

    8.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 8.4 MB in 158 requests on a phone: images 5.1 MB (34), scripts 2.1 MB (39) and fonts 931 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 2.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.38 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.38 g of CO₂e: 285.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

1 to fixGoogle 10099
  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 9 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 52 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 1 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 9277
  • Title is short (4 characters)

    Your title is only 4 characters: “Home”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 3 H1 headlines

    There are 3 <h1> headlines (“Celebrate 60 Years of CCAC!”, “Join us for a CCAC Enrollment Event!” and “Stay on Track With a "FOCUS" Pathway”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • Meta description is long (496 characters)

    Your meta description is 496 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 13 links with vague text

    13 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 217 internal links, 45 external

    The homepage links to 217 pages on ccac.edu and 45 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.ccac.edu/index.php.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.ccac.edu/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

2 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,696 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 135 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

4 to fixGoogle 7770
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=56293143&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=a29b85b2-a1ad-4c1c-a320-540c1edcecf2&bo=1&sid=80061e00d9cd11f1adee2f386ece769a&vid=800659e0d9cd11f18e27674f31043c9d&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

  • 12 small tap targets

    12 of 25 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://cdn.omniupdate.com/ou-mashup/v2.0/themes/default/ou-mashup.min.css' from origin 'h…”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (ccac.edu).

  • Valid certificate (35 days left)

    The certificate from Internet2 · InCommon RSA Server CA 2 verifies for ccac.edu and is valid for another 35 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://ccac.edu redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 60 links work

    All 60 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 20 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    ccac.edu has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

Content and conversion

1 to fix92
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 9 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 1,136 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,136 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “APPLY” and “CONTACT”.

  • 16 calls to action

    The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Apply”, “Contact” and “Request Info”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 2 email links.

Email authentication

90
  • Email authentication score: 90/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

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  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:_spf.ccac.edu include:_spf2.ccac.edu include:_tuf-spf.touchnet.com include:_spf.bbnotify.net include:spf…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “selector2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 9 trackers load before any consent

    9

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel and 4 mores (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 25 cookies set on arrival

    25

    Opening the homepage sets 25 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 43 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 43 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
AWS

Company

Employees
1,671
Founded
1966

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