mcckc.edu website review

53 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.0 MB).

10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.0 s.

About 635 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.0 s faster on a phone.

About 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.7 s faster on a phone.

401 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 1.3 s of main-thread work and 941 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Your mobile performance score is 31. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 5.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, YouTube and ocelotbot.com and others), adding 2.5 MB and 2.7 s of main-thread time.

10 images could be 1.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

YouTube costs a phone 629 ms of main-thread work and 1,014 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.

83 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

ocelotbot.com costs a phone 418 ms of main-thread work and 298 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.

18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 401 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Facebook costs a phone 277 ms of main-thread work and 257 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.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).

Polyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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.

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.

The first text or image appears after 8.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 29.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 8.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “FROM HERE, ANYWHERE”.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.6 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 9.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 201 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 144 ms to 158 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.0 s to 0.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 5.4 MB in 147 requests on a phone: scripts 2.7 MB (34), images 1.3 MB (37) and fonts 734 KiB (13). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

951x706WolfwStudents.jpg weighs 506 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

8 images (1.2 MB) 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.

8 images further down the page (1.2 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example FindYourPassion.jpg at 2,400 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 146 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.54 g of CO₂e: 184.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).

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

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“LOOKING FOR More?” and “STILL NOT SURE?”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

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

The homepage links to 93 pages on mcckc.edu and 19 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://mcckc.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://mcckc.edu/gateway/alumni.aspx, https://mcckc.edu/gateway/community.aspx, https://mcckc.edu/gateway/current-students.aspx, https://mcckc.edu/gateway/faculty-staff.aspx, https://mcckc.edu/gateway/future-students.aspx and https://mcckc.edu/gateway/lifelong-learner.aspx and 4 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

Your homepage links to 6 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://mcckc.edu/campuses/blue-river, whose canonical is https://mcckc.edu/campuses/blue-river/index.aspx. 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 69 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=17389513&Ver=2&mid=db9088f5-ee15-4a89-9ec2-ce59d77420aa&bo=1&sid=33225250d56811f1aa7da3c5529edc0f&vid=33227ae0d56811f1ae5831880eef2d6e&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg.

5 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://ai.ocelotbot.com/static/fatvai-v5.236.0.css' from origin 'https://mcckc.edu' has b…”.

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

Large scripts ship without source maps.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

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: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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.

The homepage carries about 367 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Meta Pixel and 2 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.

Opening the homepage sets 7 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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 30 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.