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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

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American College Review Home

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

232 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americancollegereview.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americancollegereview.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,020 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americancollegereview.com

1101 ms

style.css

73 ms

show_ads.js

8 ms

bsn.AutoSuggest_2.1.3.js

196 ms

autosuggest_inquisitor.css

197 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Americancollegereview.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to A.collective-media.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Americancollegereview.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 326.2 kB (58%)

Content Size

564.8 kB

After Optimization

238.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americancollegereview.com main page is 564.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 446.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 71.2 kB
  • After minification 70.4 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 49.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 39.5 kB
  • After minification 39.5 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 College Review images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 270.7 kB

  • Original 446.4 kB
  • After minification 441.0 kB
  • After compression 175.6 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 270.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 7.8 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Americancollegereview.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (64%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American College Review. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americancollegereview.com

americancollegereview.com

1101 ms

style.css

style.css

73 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

8 ms

bsn.AutoSuggest_2.1.3.js

bsn.AutoSuggest_2.1.3.js

196 ms

autosuggest_inquisitor.css

autosuggest_inquisitor.css

197 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

ga.js

ga.js

58 ms

ca-pub-5592904338042833.js

ca-pub-5592904338042833.js

89 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

240 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

252 ms

img01.gif

img01.gif

331 ms

LogoSite.gif

LogoSite.gif

332 ms

img04.gif

img04.gif

332 ms

img08.jpg

img08.jpg

342 ms

searchbox.jpg

searchbox.jpg

340 ms

submitimage.gif

submitimage.gif

333 ms

us-map.gif

us-map.gif

340 ms

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__utm.gif

283 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

140 ms

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img10.gif

156 ms

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157 ms

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157 ms

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img13.gif

156 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

133 ms

ads

ads

305 ms

osd.js

osd.js

92 ms

ads

ads

256 ms

datapair

datapair

46 ms

7 ms

datapair

datapair

45 ms

datapair

datapair

45 ms

datapair

datapair

46 ms

pixel

pixel

31 ms

pixel

pixel

16 ms

tap.php

tap.php

5 ms

Accessibility Review

americancollegereview.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

americancollegereview.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

americancollegereview.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Americancollegereview.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 Americancollegereview.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of American College Review. 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: