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american-school-search.com

American School Search | Your Guide to Colleges and Schools in the United States

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

139 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed American-school-search.com page load time and found that the first response time was 139 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

american-school-search.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

american-school-search.com

139 ms

www.american-school-search.com

521 ms

analytics.js

38 ms

topsearch.png

154 ms

toplogo.png

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (159 requests) were addressed to the original American-school-search.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (521 ms) belongs to the original domain American-school-search.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 346.6 kB (41%)

Content Size

843.5 kB

After Optimization

496.9 kB

In fact, the total size of American-school-search.com main page is 843.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 447.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 308.0 kB

  • Original 343.2 kB
  • After minification 343.2 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. 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 308.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 447.3 kB
  • After minification 440.6 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. American School Search images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (19%)

Requests Now

159

After Optimization

129

The browser has sent 159 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American School Search. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

american-school-search.com SEO score

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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 American-school-search.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 American-school-search.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 description is not detected on the main page of American School Search. 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: