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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

applyweb.com

ApplyWeb | Online college applications, digital evaluation forms, and admissions solutions from CollegeNET

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

364 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Applyweb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 364 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

applyweb.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.14

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

applyweb.com

364 ms

applyweb.collegenet.support

930 ms

hc

74 ms

en-us

13 ms

v1

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Applyweb.com, 80% (4 requests) were made to Applyweb.collegenet.support. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (930 ms) relates to the external source Applyweb.collegenet.support.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

958.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Applyweb.com main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 915.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 15.9 kB
  • After minification 15.9 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. 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 9.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 915.1 kB
  • After minification 868.1 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 Web images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 112.5 kB

  • Original 173.0 kB
  • After minification 171.9 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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 112.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 108.4 kB

  • Original 131.5 kB
  • After minification 125.8 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Applyweb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apply Web. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

applyweb.com accessibility score

94

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

applyweb.com 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

applyweb.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Applyweb.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Applyweb.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 Web. 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: