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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

scholarship-search.org.uk

Postgraduate Funding | Scholarships and Student Bursaries

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

192 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

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About Website

Visit scholarship-search.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Scholarships Earch content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about scholarship-search.org.uk

How to fund your postgraduate study, complete with scholarship search, bursaries information, student finance advice and postgrad funding guides. Apply now.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholarship-search.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 192 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scholarship-search.org.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,360 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scholarship-search.org.uk

192 ms

scholarship-search.org.uk

320 ms

www.scholarship-search.org.uk

155 ms

www.scholarship-search.org.uk

313 ms

funding

751 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Scholarship-search.org.uk, 32% (16 requests) were made to Js-dom.prod.aws.idp-connect.com and 32% (16 requests) were made to Images-dom.prod.aws.idp-connect.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (751 ms) relates to the external source Postgraduatesearch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.8 kB (19%)

Content Size

647.8 kB

After Optimization

523.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scholarship-search.org.uk main page is 647.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 419.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 122.4 kB

  • Original 141.9 kB
  • After minification 118.2 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.7 kB, which is 17% 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 122.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 275 B

  • Original 65.8 kB
  • After minification 65.5 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. Scholarships Earch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 480 B

  • Original 419.6 kB
  • After minification 419.6 kB
  • After compression 419.2 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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. Scholarship-search.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (50%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholarships Earch. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

scholarship-search.org.uk

scholarship-search.org.uk

192 ms

scholarship-search.org.uk

scholarship-search.org.uk

320 ms

www.scholarship-search.org.uk

www.scholarship-search.org.uk

155 ms

www.scholarship-search.org.uk

www.scholarship-search.org.uk

313 ms

funding

funding

751 ms

header_style_20240326.css

header_style_20240326.css

131 ms

new_cookie_lbox_styles_20220222.css

new_cookie_lbox_styles_20220222.css

136 ms

new_funding_styles_20240220.css

new_funding_styles_20240220.css

129 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

104 ms

pgs_device_specific_20210803.js

pgs_device_specific_20210803.js

111 ms

Common_Objects_20240416.js

Common_Objects_20240416.js

115 ms

ajax_20171031.js

ajax_20171031.js

113 ms

ajax-dynamic-list.js

ajax-dynamic-list.js

115 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

156 ms

clr_tick.svg

clr_tick.svg

122 ms

thanks_confirm_close_grn.svg

thanks_confirm_close_grn.svg

123 ms

ham.svg

ham.svg

117 ms

pgs_dslogo.svg

pgs_dslogo.svg

117 ms

pgs_mblogo.svg

pgs_mblogo.svg

149 ms

lazyload.js

lazyload.js

110 ms

GenericJS_20171031.js

GenericJS_20171031.js

110 ms

pgs_common1_20240109.js

pgs_common1_20240109.js

119 ms

pgs_common2_20240109.js

pgs_common2_20240109.js

117 ms

pgs_stats_logging_20240109.js

pgs_stats_logging_20240109.js

148 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

145 ms

pgs_modal_window_20240416.js

pgs_modal_window_20240416.js

143 ms

jquery.plugin.min.js

jquery.plugin.min.js

117 ms

jquery.slimscroll.min.js

jquery.slimscroll.min.js

146 ms

pgs_sociallogin_20240109.js

pgs_sociallogin_20240109.js

148 ms

pgs_topnav_20230523.js

pgs_topnav_20230523.js

147 ms

covid_wht_arw.svg

covid_wht_arw.svg

123 ms

img_px.gif

img_px.gif

146 ms

search_icon.svg

search_icon.svg

107 ms

hme_elite_arrowicn.svg

hme_elite_arrowicn.svg

245 ms

new_user_icon.svg

new_user_icon.svg

355 ms

491e43c8-c916-4f96-ad5e-8dfb1dc6ec56.json

491e43c8-c916-4f96-ad5e-8dfb1dc6ec56.json

93 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

169 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

113 ms

fundpat.png

fundpat.png

76 ms

play_icon.png

play_icon.png

29 ms

Roboto-Slab-Regular.woff

Roboto-Slab-Regular.woff

28 ms

Roboto-Slab-Bold.woff

Roboto-Slab-Bold.woff

28 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

23 ms

economics.jpg

economics.jpg

12 ms

business-management-hr.jpg

business-management-hr.jpg

27 ms

law-and-legal-studies.jpg

law-and-legal-studies.jpg

26 ms

surgery-medicine-dentistry.jpg

surgery-medicine-dentistry.jpg

27 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

38 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

26 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

85 ms

Accessibility Review

scholarship-search.org.uk accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

scholarship-search.org.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

SEO Factors

scholarship-search.org.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Scholarship-search.org.uk 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 Scholarship-search.org.uk 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

scholarship-search.org.uk

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