Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

gradschooltips.com

Graduate and Professional School Exam Directory

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

593 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradschooltips.com page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 2.6 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

gradschooltips.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

135 ms

autoptimize_5c86e57d5a0741b8a8a00d5672b6ebe4.css

274 ms

jquery.min.js

307 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

303 ms

autoptimize_single_541acd2b93d9f090e203bcdefde35fdd.js

352 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Gradschooltips.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Mometrix.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (652 ms) relates to the external source Googleadservices.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 61.1 kB (29%)

Content Size

213.3 kB

After Optimization

152.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Gradschooltips.com main page is 213.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 89.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 60.7 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 76.7 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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 60.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 17.6 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. Grad School Tips images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 318 B

  • Original 89.6 kB
  • After minification 89.6 kB
  • After compression 89.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 70 B

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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. Gradschooltips.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (66%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grad School Tips. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gradschooltips.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gradschooltips.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gradschooltips.com SEO score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Gradschooltips.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 Gradschooltips.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Grad School Tips. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: