Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

pennfostercollegeintl.com

Penn Foster College International | Self-Paced, Distance Education Programs

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

314 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pennfostercollegeintl.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pennfostercollegeintl.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,100 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pennfostercollegeintl.com

73 ms

all.css

96 ms

jquery.min.js

132 ms

main.js

98 ms

programs.js

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Pennfostercollegeintl.com, 11% (7 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (478 ms) relates to the external source Pennfoster.widget.custhelp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

262.9 kB

After Optimization

218.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Pennfostercollegeintl.com main page is 262.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 146.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 33.7 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.7 kB, which is 38% 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 27.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 74.8 kB
  • After minification 69.8 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. Penn Foster College Intl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 146.9 kB
  • After minification 146.0 kB
  • After compression 138.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 7.5 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. Pennfostercollegeintl.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (64%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Penn Foster College Intl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pennfostercollegeintl.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

pennfostercollegeintl.com best practices score

58

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pennfostercollegeintl.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Pennfostercollegeintl.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 Pennfostercollegeintl.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 Penn Foster College Intl. 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: