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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

grace.afford.com

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Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

509 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grace.afford.com page load time and found that the first response time was 509 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

grace.afford.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

grace.afford.com

509 ms

reset.css

19 ms

jquery-ui.css

49 ms

schoolHome.css

65 ms

jquery-1.5.1.min.js

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Grace.afford.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (565 ms) belongs to the original domain Grace.afford.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 399.7 kB (69%)

Content Size

581.7 kB

After Optimization

182.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Grace.afford.com main page is 581.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 423.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 25.8 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 3.5 kB, which is 14% 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 19.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 56.0 kB
  • After minification 52.2 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. Grace Afford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 309.9 kB

  • Original 423.8 kB
  • After minification 356.2 kB
  • After compression 113.9 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 309.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 66.0 kB

  • Original 76.0 kB
  • After minification 53.3 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. Grace.afford.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 66.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (47%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grace Afford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

grace.afford.com

grace.afford.com

509 ms

reset.css

reset.css

19 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

49 ms

schoolHome.css

schoolHome.css

65 ms

jquery-1.5.1.min.js

jquery-1.5.1.min.js

112 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.11.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.11.min.js

130 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

79 ms

modernizr-latest.js

modernizr-latest.js

84 ms

json2.js

json2.js

71 ms

sharedLayout.js

sharedLayout.js

81 ms

layout.js

layout.js

83 ms

home.js

home.js

94 ms

webSecurity.js

webSecurity.js

97 ms

forgotPassword.js

forgotPassword.js

101 ms

enrollment.js

enrollment.js

100 ms

ga.js

ga.js

75 ms

bg_page.png

bg_page.png

32 ms

GetImageForSchool

GetImageForSchool

61 ms

bg_side_panel.png

bg_side_panel.png

32 ms

btn_sm.png

btn_sm.png

32 ms

icon_support.png

icon_support.png

32 ms

GetImage

GetImage

565 ms

bg_panel.png

bg_panel.png

36 ms

icon_paymentplans.png

icon_paymentplans.png

40 ms

bg_panel_3col.png

bg_panel_3col.png

38 ms

select_arrow.png

select_arrow.png

38 ms

btn_md.png

btn_md.png

52 ms

icon_makeapayment.png

icon_makeapayment.png

55 ms

bg_panel_2col.png

bg_panel_2col.png

53 ms

btn_lg_202.png

btn_lg_202.png

56 ms

icon_counseling.png

icon_counseling.png

66 ms

icon_phone.png

icon_phone.png

66 ms

icon_computer.png

icon_computer.png

67 ms

tms_logo.png

tms_logo.png

73 ms

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

73 ms

ui-icons_222222_256x240.png

ui-icons_222222_256x240.png

79 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

Accessibility Review

grace.afford.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

grace.afford.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

grace.afford.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Grace.afford.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Grace.afford.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Grace Afford. 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: