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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

go.ameristudent.com

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Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

442 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

238 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Go.ameristudent.com page load time and found that the first response time was 442 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

go.ameristudent.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value42.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value151.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,020 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value229.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.studentroomstay.com

442 ms

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47 ms

module_136185064479_SRS_-_Content_With_Form_V2.min.css

452 ms

in.js

604 ms

bootstrap.min.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 129 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Go.ameristudent.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to 43900746.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (839 ms) relates to the external source Blog.studentroomstay.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (3%)

Content Size

76.9 MB

After Optimization

74.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Go.ameristudent.com main page is 76.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 72.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB
  • After compression 2.7 MB

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 1.1 MB or 29% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 72.8 MB
  • After minification 71.8 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. Go Ameri Student images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 250.4 kB
  • After minification 250.4 kB
  • After compression 244.3 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.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 661 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Go.ameristudent.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 661 B or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (17%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

102

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Ameri Student. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

go.ameristudent.com accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

go.ameristudent.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

go.ameristudent.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Go.ameristudent.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 Go.ameristudent.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

go.ameristudent.com

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