lcc.edu website review

About 291 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.1 s faster on a phone.

About 176 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

14 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.

8 images could be 475 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (65 KiB).

16 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

12 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 270 ms of main-thread work and 327 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.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Siteimprove and onlinechatcenters.com and others), adding 503 KiB and 328 ms of main-thread time.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 225 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 7 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

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

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Your largest element takes 15.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “distance shot of a graduate at commencement in the crowd of…”.

The first text or image appears after 7.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 15.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 103 ms to 106 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.0 MB in 89 requests on a phone: images 2.0 MB (30), scripts 648 KiB (20) and stylesheets 169 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

9 images (984 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example 2026-foundation-scholarships-hp-slide.jpg at 2,000 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 79 KiB.

1 image further down the page (28 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.85 g of CO₂e: 102.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Your title is only 25 characters: “Lansing Community College”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

There are 5 <h1> headlines (“Get funds to cover tuition, books and other educa…”, “Register now for the spring semester” and “Michigan Reconnect age requirement lowered to 21”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 276 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 129 pages on lcc.edu and 20 external pages.

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.

There is no https://www.lcc.edu/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.

https://www.lcc.edu/students/index.html, https://www.lcc.edu/about/visitors/index.html, https://www.lcc.edu/foundation/givenow/index.html, https://www.lcc.edu/community/college-credit-in-hs/index.html, https://www.lcc.edu/library and https://www.lcc.edu/services and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your homepage links to 5 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://www.lcc.edu/academics, whose canonical is https://www.lcc.edu/academics/index.html. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 89 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)”.

Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

The homepage has only about 151 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

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

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and The Trade Desk (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.

Opening the homepage sets 7 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.