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applysquare.com

ApplySquare_平方创想,Planning your future|World college rankings, college major introduction, campus life

Page Load Speed

24.2 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

21.4 sec

Page Rendered

648 ms

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About Website

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Applysquare provides DIY college and graduate school applicants with application guide, campus life experiences, rankings by major, global college rankings, application tools and Ask-Answer community....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Applysquare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 22 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

applysquare.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

applysquare.com

2144 ms

www.applysquare.com

11842 ms

a2-493e464d034caa97c9f35c2741e8c9554af0b902.css

843 ms

natural_sciences.png

649 ms

business_and_management.png

656 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Applysquare.com, 77% (27 requests) were made to Cdn.applysquare.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Applysquare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 788.0 kB (69%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

346.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Applysquare.com main page is 1.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 703.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 46.6 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 52.1 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 6.4 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 46.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 51.2 kB
  • After minification 48.8 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. Apply Square images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 482.1 kB

  • Original 703.4 kB
  • After minification 703.4 kB
  • After compression 221.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 482.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 256.9 kB

  • Original 321.4 kB
  • After minification 321.4 kB
  • After compression 64.5 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. Applysquare.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 256.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apply Square. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

applysquare.com SEO score

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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 Applysquare.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 Applysquare.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 description is not detected on the main page of Apply Square. 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: