Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 63

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

offtocollege.com

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Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

545 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Offtocollege.com page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

offtocollege.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

offtocollege.com

69 ms

default.php

33 ms

forms.php

36 ms

tabnavigation.php

35 ms

treenav.php

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Offtocollege.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to A.collective-media.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (566 ms) belongs to the original domain Offtocollege.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 449.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

727.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Offtocollege.com main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 549.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 89.4 kB

  • Original 115.5 kB
  • After minification 103.8 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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 89.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 549.5 kB
  • After minification 532.9 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. Offto College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 277.7 kB

  • Original 435.3 kB
  • After minification 422.7 kB
  • After compression 157.6 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 277.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 65.5 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 56.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. Offtocollege.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (67%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Offto College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

offtocollege.com accessibility score

70

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

offtocollege.com 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

offtocollege.com SEO score

63

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Offtocollege.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Offtocollege.com 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Offto College. 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: