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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

scholarselect.com

SmarterSelect - Application Management System priced for non-profits.

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholarselect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scholarselect.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.568

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scholarselect.com

74 ms

smarterselect.com

99 ms

www.smarterselect.com

183 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

61 ms

layout.min.css

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scholarselect.com, 51% (41 requests) were made to Smarterselect.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to No-cache.hubspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source 2308829.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 144.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

556.7 kB

After Optimization

412.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scholarselect.com main page is 556.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 342.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 100.8 kB

  • Original 116.3 kB
  • After minification 109.3 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 100.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 342.1 kB
  • After minification 308.0 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. Scholar Select images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 69.0 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 65.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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. Scholarselect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (59%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholar Select. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scholarselect.com

scholarselect.com

74 ms

smarterselect.com

smarterselect.com

99 ms

www.smarterselect.com

www.smarterselect.com

183 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

jquery-1.11.2.js

61 ms

layout.min.css

layout.min.css

234 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

306 ms

css2

css2

124 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

399 ms

theme-overrides.min.css

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107 ms

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268 ms

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296 ms

Slick-Part1.css

Slick-Part1.css

146 ms

Slick-Part2.css

Slick-Part2.css

156 ms

module_33396443107_WCS_Testimonial_Slider.min.css

module_33396443107_WCS_Testimonial_Slider.min.css

178 ms

css

css

133 ms

current.js

current.js

158 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

184 ms

project.js

project.js

318 ms

module_28819133543_menu-section.js

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223 ms

Slick-Script-Part2.js

Slick-Script-Part2.js

224 ms

Slick-Script-Part1.js

Slick-Script-Part1.js

262 ms

module_33396443107_WCS_Testimonial_Slider.min.js

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472 ms

project.js

project.js

473 ms

2308829.js

2308829.js

327 ms

index.js

index.js

326 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

242 ms

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562 ms

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tick.png

734 ms

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cropped-SmarterSelect-Logo-WHITE-3.png

171 ms

stop-clock-icon-2.svg

stop-clock-icon-2.svg

727 ms

money-back-icon-2.svg

money-back-icon-2.svg

165 ms

illustration_for_banner.png

illustration_for_banner.png

171 ms

AISC-logo.png

AISC-logo.png

536 ms

Logo2.png

Logo2.png

170 ms

Logo3.png

Logo3.png

197 ms

Sigma-Alpha-Mu-Foundation-Logo.png

Sigma-Alpha-Mu-Foundation-Logo.png

209 ms

Logo5.png

Logo5.png

259 ms

Scholarships-icon.png

Scholarships-icon.png

532 ms

Grant-icon.png

Grant-icon.png

532 ms

Awards-icon.png

Awards-icon.png

541 ms

Special-Programs-icon.png

Special-Programs-icon.png

533 ms

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easy-to0use-cloud-based-software.png

592 ms

Flexible-needs-based-pricing.png

Flexible-needs-based-pricing.png

663 ms

All-in-one-app-program-builder.png

All-in-one-app-program-builder.png

663 ms

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805 ms

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855 ms

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795 ms

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662 ms

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730 ms

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730 ms

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730 ms

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729 ms

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1114 ms

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210 ms

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212 ms

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542 ms

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542 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

408 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

396 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

445 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

390 ms

itl.js

itl.js

349 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

453 ms

fb.js

fb.js

373 ms

2308829.js

2308829.js

368 ms

conversations-embed.js

conversations-embed.js

332 ms

2308829.js

2308829.js

367 ms

leadflows.js

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368 ms

slick.woff

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365 ms

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166 ms

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60 ms

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168 ms

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249 ms

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115 ms

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127 ms

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Accessibility Review

scholarselect.com accessibility score

80

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 match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

Best Practices

scholarselect.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scholarselect.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scholarselect.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 Scholarselect.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

scholarselect.com

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