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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

actstudent.org

The ACT Test for Students | ACT

Page Load Speed

902 ms in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

672 ms

Page Rendered

192 ms

About Website

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The ACT test is a curriculum-based education and career planning tool for high school students that assesses the mastery of college readiness standards

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Key Findings

We analyzed Actstudent.org page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 864 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

actstudent.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,740 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

actstudent.org

38 ms

www.actstudent.org

36 ms

the-act.html

20 ms

jquery.min.js

11 ms

act-base.min.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Actstudent.org, 55% (12 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 (315 ms) relates to the external source Cloud.e.act.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.7 kB (67%)

Content Size

98.7 kB

After Optimization

33.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Actstudent.org main page is 98.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 75.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 75.6 kB
  • After minification 61.9 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 13.7 kB, which is 18% 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 62.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 11.6 kB
  • After minification 8.8 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. Obviously, ACT Student needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 24% 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 (53%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACT 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

actstudent.org accessibility score

90

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

actstudent.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

SEO Factors

actstudent.org SEO score

83

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 Actstudent.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 Actstudent.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

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