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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

actnext.org

National Research Leader in College and Workforce Readiness | ACT

Page Load Speed

930 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

628 ms

Page Rendered

246 ms

actnext.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Actnext.org page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 874 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

actnext.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

actnext.org

56 ms

research

32 ms

research.html

18 ms

jquery.min.js

5 ms

act-base.min.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Actnext.org, 67% (14 requests) were made to Act.org and 14% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (310 ms) relates to the external source Js.hs-scripts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 578.5 kB (95%)

Content Size

610.7 kB

After Optimization

32.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Actnext.org main page is 610.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 533.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 65.8 kB
  • After minification 54.9 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 10.8 kB, which is 16% 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 53.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-98%

Potential reduce by 524.9 kB

  • Original 533.5 kB
  • After minification 8.6 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, ACT Next needs image optimization as it can save up to 524.9 kB or 98% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 57 B

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 11.5 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (60%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACT Next. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

actnext.org

actnext.org

56 ms

research

research

32 ms

research.html

research.html

18 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

5 ms

act-base.min.css

act-base.min.css

36 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

103 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

112 ms

24131897.js

24131897.js

310 ms

clientlibs.min.js

clientlibs.min.js

79 ms

v2.js

v2.js

103 ms

act-base.min.js

act-base.min.js

79 ms

act-chart.min.js

act-chart.min.js

80 ms

act-commons.min.js

act-commons.min.js

80 ms

00c84754-3cfa-4846-8d2d-64f9c110b6b0.json

00c84754-3cfa-4846-8d2d-64f9c110b6b0.json

197 ms

logo-act-blue-300.png

logo-act-blue-300.png

187 ms

hero-research.png

hero-research.png

53 ms

logo-act-rev-300.png

logo-act-rev-300.png

8 ms

Montserrat-Regular.ttf

Montserrat-Regular.ttf

52 ms

IcoMoon-Ultimate.woff

IcoMoon-Ultimate.woff

51 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

25 ms

location

location

71 ms

Accessibility Review

actnext.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

actnext.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

actnext.org SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Actnext.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 Actnext.org 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

actnext.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of ACT Next. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: