Report Summary

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

688 ms

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thinkgreendegrees.com page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 950 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thinkgreendegrees.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thinkgreendegrees.com

132 ms

www.uscollegesearch.org

161 ms

grid.css

77 ms

style.css

118 ms

header-bg.gif

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thinkgreendegrees.com, 83% (34 requests) were made to Uscollegesearch.org and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (237 ms) relates to the external source Uscollegesearch.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

250.2 kB

After Optimization

194.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Thinkgreendegrees.com main page is 250.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 174.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 21.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 174.0 kB
  • After minification 164.6 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. Thinkgreendegrees images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Thinkgreendegrees.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thinkgreendegrees. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thinkgreendegrees.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thinkgreendegrees.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Thinkgreendegrees.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 Thinkgreendegrees. 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: