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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

scholorship.com

Scholarships.com Top College Scholarships & Grants for College Students 2023

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

651 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholorship.com page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 2.5 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

scholorship.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.scholarships.com

241 ms

navigation.css

175 ms

sitewide.css

181 ms

jquery.modal.min.css

69 ms

homepage.css

185 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Scholorship.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1000 ms) relates to the external source Scholarships.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.9 kB (66%)

Content Size

84.5 kB

After Optimization

28.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scholorship.com main page is 84.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 63.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 52.8 kB

  • Original 63.2 kB
  • After minification 63.2 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 52.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Scholorship needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 87 B

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. Scholorship.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (36%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholorship. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

scholorship.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scholorship.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

scholorship.com SEO score

92

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scholorship.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 Scholorship.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 Scholorship. 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: