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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

gradguard.com

GradGuard | College Life Protected

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

417 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradguard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gradguard.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gradguard.com

253 ms

MyFontsWebfontsKit.css

71 ms

home.css

43 ms

modernizr.js

32 ms

fplogos_hype_generated_script.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Gradguard.com, 8% (6 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Static.olark.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (368 ms) relates to the external source Analytics.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (70%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

464.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gradguard.com main page is 1.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 725.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 54.3 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 43.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB

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. Obviously, Grad Guard needs image optimization as it can save up to 21.6 kB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 456.8 kB

  • Original 702.5 kB
  • After minification 662.7 kB
  • After compression 245.7 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 456.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 558.4 kB

  • Original 725.2 kB
  • After minification 526.4 kB
  • After compression 166.8 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. Gradguard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 558.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (52%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grad Guard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gradguard.com

gradguard.com

253 ms

MyFontsWebfontsKit.css

MyFontsWebfontsKit.css

71 ms

home.css

home.css

43 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

32 ms

fplogos_hype_generated_script.js

fplogos_hype_generated_script.js

69 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

74 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

80 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

89 ms

app.js

app.js

74 ms

basic.js

basic.js

88 ms

css-browser-selector.js

css-browser-selector.js

87 ms

twitter-home.js

twitter-home.js

88 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

89 ms

school-search.js

school-search.js

89 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

92 ms

2acbe2

2acbe2

54 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

219 ms

logo-tag.svg

logo-tag.svg

129 ms

HYPE-464.thin.min.js

HYPE-464.thin.min.js

222 ms

renters-badge.svg

renters-badge.svg

148 ms

tuition-badge.svg

tuition-badge.svg

152 ms

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auto-badge.svg

150 ms

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hat.svg

145 ms

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stacked.svg

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school-logos.png

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lady.svg

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tri-badge.svg

170 ms

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spp-badge.svg

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stm-badge.svg

167 ms

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175 ms

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ish-badge.svg

171 ms

travel-badge.svg

travel-badge.svg

176 ms

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88 ms

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iconic-sm.woff

102 ms

iconic-md.woff

iconic-md.woff

101 ms

iconic-lg.woff

iconic-lg.woff

101 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

42 ms

8.svg

8.svg

41 ms

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47 ms

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87 ms

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100 ms

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64 ms

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112 ms

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2.svg

57 ms

1.svg

1.svg

78 ms

collect

collect

113 ms

collect

collect

145 ms

399863.js

399863.js

125 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

112 ms

loader0.js

loader0.js

150 ms

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loading.gif

loading.gif

24 ms

get-tweets.php

get-tweets.php

154 ms

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roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

134 ms

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__ptq.gif

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application2.js

application2.js

105 ms

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storage.html

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38 ms

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storage.js

storage.js

113 ms

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sync

sync

295 ms

adsct

adsct

368 ms

pixel

pixel

303 ms

visits

visits

318 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

134 ms

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279 ms

log.png

log.png

255 ms

bounce

bounce

32 ms

tap.php

tap.php

78 ms

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in

65 ms

377928.gif

377928.gif

57 ms

bounce

bounce

18 ms

Accessibility Review

gradguard.com accessibility score

97

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gradguard.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gradguard.com SEO score

92

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gradguard.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Gradguard.com 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

gradguard.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Grad Guard. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: