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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

my.gradcity.com

High School Spring Break and Graduation Trips | GradCity

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

463 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

235 ms

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About Website

Visit my.gradcity.com now to see the best up-to-date My Grad City content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about my.gradcity.com

Grad City is a student-focused travel company committed to providing students with the Ultimate Travel Experience. Senior graduation trips are our specialty!

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Key Findings

We analyzed My.gradcity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 463 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

my.gradcity.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,650 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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463 ms

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109 ms

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126 ms

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234 ms

my.gradcity_new.css

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original My.gradcity.com, 10% (4 requests) were made to and 5% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (536 ms) belongs to the original domain My.gradcity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 368.3 kB (67%)

Content Size

552.2 kB

After Optimization

183.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of My.gradcity.com main page is 552.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 363.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 42.6 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.8 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 34.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 129.3 kB
  • After minification 126.2 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. My Grad City images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-91%

Potential reduce by 330.8 kB

  • Original 363.1 kB
  • After minification 359.2 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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. My.gradcity.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 330.8 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (18%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Grad City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

search

search

463 ms

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109 ms

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126 ms

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234 ms

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164 ms

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536 ms

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308 ms

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182 ms

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197 ms

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200 ms

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Accessibility Review

my.gradcity.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

my.gradcity.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

my.gradcity.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise My.gradcity.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 My.gradcity.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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