Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

gradhopper.com

Dreaming to Study Abroad? Find University & Scholarship, and More Help Gradhopper

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

458 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradhopper.com page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gradhopper.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gradhopper.com

169 ms

gradhopper.com

419 ms

shortcodes.css

140 ms

shortcodes-3rd.css

216 ms

textanimation.css

217 ms

Our browser made a total of 185 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (159 requests) were addressed to the original Gradhopper.com, 3% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Gradhopper.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 479.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Gradhopper.com main page is 3.9 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. 80% 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 126.3 kB

  • Original 159.0 kB
  • After minification 152.7 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 126.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 165.3 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Gradhopper images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 82.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 999.7 kB
  • After compression 918.0 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 105.6 kB

  • Original 433.6 kB
  • After minification 432.7 kB
  • After compression 328.0 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. Gradhopper.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 105.6 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 148 (87%)

Requests Now

171

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 171 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gradhopper. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 80 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 70 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gradhopper.com accessibility score

91

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

gradhopper.com best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gradhopper.com SEO score

85

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

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 Gradhopper.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 Gradhopper.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 data is detected on the main page of Gradhopper. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: