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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

collegewhale.com

CollegeWhale.com | BIG On Helping You With College Financial Aid

Page Load Speed

586 ms in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

237 ms

Page Rendered

253 ms

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About Website

Visit collegewhale.com now to see the best up-to-date College Whale content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about collegewhale.com

CollegeWhale.com helps college students, and parents of college students find scholarships and learn about financial aid for college. We are dedicated to providing current information on scholarships,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegewhale.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 490 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegewhale.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,850 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegewhale.com

96 ms

bootstrap.min.css

53 ms

font-awesome.min.css

53 ms

flexslider.css

53 ms

slide.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Collegewhale.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (96 ms) belongs to the original domain Collegewhale.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.9 kB (46%)

Content Size

109.6 kB

After Optimization

59.8 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Collegewhale.com main page is 109.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 86.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 2.5 kB, which is 11% 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 17.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 86.5 kB
  • After minification 86.5 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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 32.0 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Whale. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

collegewhale.com

collegewhale.com

96 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

53 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

53 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

53 ms

slide.css

slide.css

53 ms

main.css

main.css

52 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

53 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

90 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

68 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.min.js

jquery.easing.1.3.min.js

68 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

69 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

69 ms

jquery.fittext.js

jquery.fittext.js

68 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

68 ms

jquery.countTo.js

jquery.countTo.js

68 ms

jquery.sequence-min.js

jquery.sequence-min.js

68 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

68 ms

contact.js

contact.js

68 ms

main.js

main.js

67 ms

logo-sm.png

logo-sm.png

51 ms

whale-map.png

whale-map.png

51 ms

find-scholar.png

find-scholar.png

51 ms

comp.png

comp.png

50 ms

signup.gif

signup.gif

50 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

Accessibility Review

collegewhale.com accessibility score

59

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

collegewhale.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

collegewhale.com SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Collegewhale.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 Collegewhale.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 data is detected on the main page of College Whale. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: