prcc.edu website review

82 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.8 s.

Your mobile performance score is 45. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 4.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

7 images could be 1.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

About 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Google CDN and geckoengage.com and others), adding 3.4 MB and 1.3 s of main-thread time.

8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.2 MB).

YouTube costs a phone 592 ms of main-thread work and 1,003 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.

About 218 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Google CDN costs a phone 430 ms of main-thread work and 736 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 300 ms).

geckoengage.com costs a phone 100 ms of main-thread work and 1.3 MB 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.

15 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 228 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 11 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.

5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

Your largest element takes 10.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Text slider: Let Your Future Bloom; Apply for Spring 2027 a…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 31.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 4.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 2.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.19 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 512 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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 94 ms to 88 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.9 MB in 205 requests on a phone: images 3.1 MB (32), scripts 2.3 MB (68) and fonts 558 KiB (11). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

comp_1_002.gif weighs 1.1 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

7 images (1.5 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.

4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Mary-C-Galloway.jpg at 563 px wide, shown at 111 px. Resized copies would save about 154 KiB.

6 images further down the page (352 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.97 g of CO₂e: 235.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

17 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

ARIA progressbar nodes must have an accessible name: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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.

8 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

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. (1 element).

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

The homepage links to 84 pages on prcc.edu and 27 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing url, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://prcc.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.

Your homepage links to https://prcc.edu/river-life/athletics, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

https://prcc.edu/academics/dual-enrollment has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://prcc.edu/about/mission-statement, https://prcc.edu/about/board-of-trustees, https://prcc.edu/about/facts-history, https://prcc.edu/about/student-consumer-information-guide, https://prcc.edu/about/news-events and https://prcc.edu/about/employment-opportunities and 6 others took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 66 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://prcc.edu/.

7 of 31 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught Error: Bootstrap's JavaScript requires jQuery version 1.9.1 or higher, but lower than version 3”.

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

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: 34 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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

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

The homepage carries about 1,121 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads (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 1 cookie, 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 16 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.