Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

prepforward.com

Teacher Certification Prep & Professional Dev | PrepForward

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Prepforward.com page load time and found that the first response time was 15 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

prepforward.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.241

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

prepforward.com

15 ms

www.prepforward.com

905 ms

style.min.css

54 ms

style.css

58 ms

style.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Prepforward.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (905 ms) belongs to the original domain Prepforward.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 405.1 kB (41%)

Content Size

994.9 kB

After Optimization

589.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Prepforward.com main page is 994.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 445.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 64.5 kB

  • Original 82.1 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 64.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 121.3 kB

  • Original 445.2 kB
  • After minification 323.9 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. Obviously, Prep Forward needs image optimization as it can save up to 121.3 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 211.9 kB

  • Original 360.1 kB
  • After minification 359.9 kB
  • After compression 148.2 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 211.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 107.6 kB
  • After minification 107.6 kB
  • After compression 100.1 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. Prepforward.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (74%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Prep Forward. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

prepforward.com accessibility score

92

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

SEO Factors

prepforward.com SEO score

93

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

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 Prepforward.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 Prepforward.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 data is detected on the main page of Prep Forward. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: