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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

pearsonhighered.com

For College | Pearson US

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

355 ms

pearsonhighered.com screenshot

About Website

Visit pearsonhighered.com now to see the best up-to-date Pearson Highered content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pearsonhighered.com

Pearson’s college programs build connections between academic majors, future careers, and the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pearsonhighered.com page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pearsonhighered.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,790 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pearsonhighered.com

188 ms

pearsonhighered.com

284 ms

www.pearsonhighered.com

80 ms

higher-education.html

108 ms

higher-education.html

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Pearsonhighered.com, 74% (63 requests) were made to Pearson.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (628 ms) relates to the external source Pearson.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (44%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pearsonhighered.com main page is 5.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 304.4 kB

  • Original 366.3 kB
  • After minification 298.6 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 67.7 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 304.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Pearson Highered images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 788.5 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 1.8 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 531.0 kB

  • Original 722.2 kB
  • After minification 717.9 kB
  • After compression 191.2 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. Pearsonhighered.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 531.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (77%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pearson Highered. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pearsonhighered.com

pearsonhighered.com

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Accessibility Review

pearsonhighered.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

pearsonhighered.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pearsonhighered.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

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 Pearsonhighered.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 Pearsonhighered.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

pearsonhighered.com

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