Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

pennfoster.edu

Accredited College, High School & Career School Online | Penn Foster

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pennfoster.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pennfoster.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pennfoster.edu

81 ms

www.pennfoster.edu

314 ms

combinedcss

131 ms

180066136.js

137 ms

raf1way.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 199 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Pennfoster.edu, 15% (30 requests) were made to S-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com and 6% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (680 ms) relates to the external source Pixel.mathtag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (43%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Pennfoster.edu main page is 2.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 188.0 kB

  • Original 244.5 kB
  • After minification 230.1 kB
  • After compression 56.5 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 188.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 113.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 949.2 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. Obviously, Penn Foster needs image optimization as it can save up to 113.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 792.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 457.2 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 792.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Pennfoster.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (42%)

Requests Now

170

After Optimization

98

The browser has sent 170 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Penn Foster. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pennfoster.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

pennfoster.edu best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pennfoster.edu SEO score

86

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pennfoster.edu 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 Pennfoster.edu 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 Penn Foster. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: