Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

ivycoach.com

Private College Counselors & Admissions Consultants | Ivy Coach

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

467 ms

ivycoach.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ivycoach.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ivycoach.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.823

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ivycoach.com

205 ms

light_style.css

51 ms

css

85 ms

font-awesome.min.css

59 ms

style.css

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Ivycoach.com, 16% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (602 ms) belongs to the original domain Ivycoach.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 684.5 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Ivycoach.com main page is 2.3 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 100.6 kB

  • Original 128.3 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 100.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 113.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Ivy Coach images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 361.6 kB

  • Original 566.8 kB
  • After minification 558.0 kB
  • After compression 205.2 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 361.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 109.1 kB

  • Original 126.5 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. Ivycoach.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (35%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ivy Coach. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ivycoach.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

ivycoach.com 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

ivycoach.com 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 Ivycoach.com 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 Ivycoach.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 data is detected on the main page of Ivy Coach. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: