Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

539 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Naviance.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

naviance.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

naviance.com

44 ms

main.css

10 ms

modernizer-2.8.3.js

21 ms

jquery.min.js

48 ms

main.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Naviance.com, 18% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (379 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 576.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

947.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Naviance.com main page is 1.5 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 719.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 27.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 719.3 kB
  • After minification 715.7 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. Naviance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 370.6 kB

  • Original 561.5 kB
  • After minification 546.3 kB
  • After compression 190.9 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 370.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 174.1 kB

  • Original 204.5 kB
  • After minification 203.4 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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. Naviance.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 174.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (57%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Naviance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

naviance.com accessibility score

68

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

naviance.com 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

SEO Factors

naviance.com SEO score

83

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Naviance.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Naviance.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 Naviance. 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: