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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

greatcollegeadvice.com

College Admissions Counseling | Great College Advice

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

772 ms

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About Website

Welcome to greatcollegeadvice.com homepage info - get ready to check Great College Advice best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about greatcollegeadvice.com

Great College Advice offers comprehensive, personalized college admissions counseling services to students locally, around the country, and around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatcollegeadvice.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatcollegeadvice.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,330 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatcollegeadvice.com

162 ms

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1315 ms

style-legacy.min.css

183 ms

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186 ms

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190 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Greatcollegeadvice.com, 15% (17 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Greatcollegeadvice.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 375.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatcollegeadvice.com main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 106.3 kB

  • Original 127.8 kB
  • After minification 121.1 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 106.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Great College Advice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 156.1 kB

  • Original 543.6 kB
  • After minification 543.6 kB
  • After compression 387.5 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 156.1 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 112.9 kB

  • Original 356.0 kB
  • After minification 356.0 kB
  • After compression 243.1 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. Greatcollegeadvice.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.9 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (74%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great College Advice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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162 ms

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Accessibility Review

greatcollegeadvice.com accessibility score

87

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

greatcollegeadvice.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

greatcollegeadvice.com SEO score

98

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