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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% 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

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

collegescholarships.org

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Page Load Speed

659 ms in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

473 ms

Page Rendered

133 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegescholarships.org page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 606 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegescholarships.org performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegescholarships.org

53 ms

www.collegescholarships.org

74 ms

behavior.js

32 ms

rating.js

24 ms

rating.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Collegescholarships.org, 12% (3 requests) were made to Contextual.media.net and 8% (2 requests) were made to Assets.pinterest.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (163 ms) belongs to the original domain Collegescholarships.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 705.1 kB (80%)

Content Size

882.2 kB

After Optimization

177.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Collegescholarships.org main page is 882.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 432.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 11.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 40.6 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 9.2 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. Obviously, College Scholarships needs image optimization as it can save up to 40.6 kB or 82% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 310.5 kB

  • Original 432.8 kB
  • After minification 398.2 kB
  • After compression 122.4 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 310.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 342.7 kB

  • Original 384.3 kB
  • After minification 340.4 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Collegescholarships.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 342.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (71%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Scholarships. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

collegescholarships.org

collegescholarships.org

53 ms

www.collegescholarships.org

www.collegescholarships.org

74 ms

behavior.js

behavior.js

32 ms

rating.js

rating.js

24 ms

rating.css

rating.css

24 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

81 ms

style.css

style.css

26 ms

meanmenu.css

meanmenu.css

36 ms

layout.css

layout.css

36 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

163 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

23 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

50 ms

jquery.meanmenu.js

jquery.meanmenu.js

41 ms

jquery.debouncedresize.js

jquery.debouncedresize.js

30 ms

main.js

main.js

32 ms

pinit.js

pinit.js

5 ms

78 ms

logo.png

logo.png

36 ms

nmedianet.js

nmedianet.js

66 ms

valid-xhtml10.png

valid-xhtml10.png

12 ms

px.gif

px.gif

13 ms

bping.php

bping.php

5 ms

fcmdynet.js

fcmdynet.js

106 ms

px.gif

px.gif

34 ms

41 ms

pinit_main.js

pinit_main.js

35 ms

Accessibility Review

collegescholarships.org 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.

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

collegescholarships.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

collegescholarships.org SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Collegescholarships.org 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 Collegescholarships.org 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 description is not detected on the main page of College Scholarships. 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: