Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

243 ms

Resources Loaded

682 ms

Page Rendered

209 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecollegeologist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 243 ms and then it took 891 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecollegeologist.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,570 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.231

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecollegeologist.com

243 ms

sites.css

112 ms

fancybox.css

69 ms

main_style.css

130 ms

css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Thecollegeologist.com, 17% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Assets.dragndropbuilder.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (286 ms) belongs to the original domain Thecollegeologist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 149.3 kB (52%)

Content Size

288.0 kB

After Optimization

138.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Thecollegeologist.com main page is 288.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 104.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 14.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 92.0 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. Thecollegeologist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 65.2 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 42.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 86.6 kB

  • Original 104.7 kB
  • After minification 101.3 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Thecollegeologist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 86.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (21%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thecollegeologist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thecollegeologist.com accessibility score

75

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.

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

Best Practices

thecollegeologist.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

thecollegeologist.com SEO score

80

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thecollegeologist.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thecollegeologist.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 Thecollegeologist. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: