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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 93% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

commonapp.org

Apply to college with Common App | Your future starts here

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

500 ms

Page Rendered

526 ms

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About Website

Welcome to commonapp.org homepage info - get ready to check Common App best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about commonapp.org

Common App is a nonprofit organization of 1000+ colleges and universities that simplifies, informs, and supports your college application journey.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Commonapp.org page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1 sec 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

commonapp.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,330 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

commonapp.org

14 ms

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41 ms

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Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Commonapp.org, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (275 ms) belongs to the original domain Commonapp.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.8 MB (58%)

Content Size

8.3 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Commonapp.org main page is 8.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 114.3 kB

  • Original 149.3 kB
  • After minification 147.3 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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 114.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 3.1 MB

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB

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, Common App needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.1 MB or 51% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 819.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 358.4 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 819.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 740.1 kB

  • Original 819.8 kB
  • After minification 808.4 kB
  • After compression 79.7 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. Commonapp.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 740.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (49%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Common App. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

commonapp.org

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41 ms

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Accessibility Review

commonapp.org accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

commonapp.org best practices score

83

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

commonapp.org SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Commonapp.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 Commonapp.org 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

commonapp.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Common App. 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: