Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

scholarshare.com

Welcome to ScholarShare 529

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

558 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

353 ms

scholarshare.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to scholarshare.com homepage info - get ready to check Scholar Share best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about scholarshare.com

ScholarShare 529 is a great way to save for college. Pay for tuition, supplies and room and board. Offers low-fee investments plus state and federal tax benefits.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholarshare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 558 ms and then it took 4 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

scholarshare.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.scholarshare.com

558 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

300 ms

jquery.min.js

322 ms

jquery.mobile.min.js

83 ms

jquery-scrolltofixed-min.js

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Scholarshare.com, 6% (7 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Scholarshare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 940.4 kB (48%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Scholarshare.com main page is 2.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 783.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 75.1 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 61.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 726.9 kB
  • After minification 684.0 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 Share images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 520.1 kB

  • Original 783.9 kB
  • After minification 740.9 kB
  • After compression 263.9 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 520.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 316.0 kB

  • Original 366.6 kB
  • After minification 320.4 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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. Scholarshare.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 316.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (45%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholar Share. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scholarshare.com accessibility score

96

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.

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

scholarshare.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scholarshare.com SEO score

83

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

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 Scholarshare.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 Scholarshare.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 Scholar Share. 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: