Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

scholarships.umd.edu

Home | UMD National Scholarships Office

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

678 ms

Page Rendered

312 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholarships.umd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 990 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scholarships.umd.edu performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scholarships.umd.edu

52 ms

bootstrap.css

24 ms

font-awesome.css

8 ms

flickity.css

6 ms

flickity.pkgd.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Scholarships.umd.edu, 12% (4 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Calendar.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (153 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.syndication.twimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 588.1 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

760.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Scholarships.umd.edu main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 610.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 2.4 kB, which is 13% 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 12.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 42.7 kB

  • Original 610.7 kB
  • After minification 568.0 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. Scholarships UMD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 367.8 kB

  • Original 524.9 kB
  • After minification 463.9 kB
  • After compression 157.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 367.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 164.8 kB

  • Original 195.7 kB
  • After minification 165.6 kB
  • After compression 30.8 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. Scholarships.umd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 164.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (57%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholarships UMD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scholarships.umd.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

scholarships.umd.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

scholarships.umd.edu SEO score

93

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

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 Scholarships.umd.edu 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 Scholarships.umd.edu 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 Scholarships UMD. 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: