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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

scholarlinks.net

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Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

563 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholarlinks.net page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scholarlinks.net performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scholarlinks.net

185 ms

freecollegeblog.com

388 ms

style.css

40 ms

show_ads.js

6 ms

wp-embed.min.js

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scholarlinks.net, 39% (11 requests) were made to Freecollegeblog.com and 14% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (721 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.1 kB (21%)

Content Size

246.2 kB

After Optimization

194.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scholarlinks.net main page is 246.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 146.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 13.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 146.7 kB
  • After minification 145.3 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. Scholarlinks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 27.3 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 67.0 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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 27.3 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Scholarlinks.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (54%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholarlinks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scholarlinks.net

scholarlinks.net

185 ms

freecollegeblog.com

freecollegeblog.com

388 ms

style.css

style.css

40 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

6 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

97 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

64 ms

lg98bosgmk597CBCBB576AEDBFD

lg98bosgmk597CBCBB576AEDBFD

37 ms

ca-pub-7582288108793453.js

ca-pub-7582288108793453.js

638 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

633 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

77 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

74 ms

rss.jpg

rss.jpg

73 ms

bg-portrait5.jpg

bg-portrait5.jpg

282 ms

date.png

date.png

282 ms

user.gif

user.gif

281 ms

rss.gif

rss.gif

282 ms

bg-footer.jpg

bg-footer.jpg

282 ms

10487597-1457978959000

10487597-1457978959000

268 ms

ga.js

ga.js

277 ms

ads

ads

721 ms

osd.js

osd.js

357 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

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8795706500874938460

58 ms

abg.js

abg.js

64 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

83 ms

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112 ms

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33 ms

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x_button_blue2.png

34 ms

Accessibility Review

scholarlinks.net accessibility score

80

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

scholarlinks.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

scholarlinks.net SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Scholarlinks.net 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 Scholarlinks.net 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 Scholarlinks. 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: