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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

160 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegeabacus.org page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Collegeabacus.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (539 ms) relates to the external source S3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 880.1 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

489.7 kB

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  • Images
  • JavaScript
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In fact, the total size of Collegeabacus.org main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 836.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 56.6 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 72.2 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 56.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 206.8 kB
  • After minification 158.9 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. Obviously, College Abacus needs image optimization as it can save up to 48.0 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 566.8 kB

  • Original 836.7 kB
  • After minification 835.6 kB
  • After compression 270.0 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 566.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 208.7 kB

  • Original 252.7 kB
  • After minification 250.7 kB
  • After compression 43.9 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. Collegeabacus.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 208.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (69%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

11

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The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Abacus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Collegeabacus.org 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 Collegeabacus.org main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of College Abacus. 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: