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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

collegeadviceblog.com

College Advice Blog

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

132 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegeadviceblog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegeadviceblog.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegeadviceblog.com

35 ms

www.collegeadviceblog.com

124 ms

3645911276-widget_css_bundle.css

82 ms

gsearch.css

68 ms

authorization.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Collegeadviceblog.com, 17% (18 requests) were made to Google.com and 11% (11 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (577 ms) relates to the external source Intensedebate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 389.2 kB (61%)

Content Size

641.8 kB

After Optimization

252.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Collegeadviceblog.com main page is 641.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 395.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 128.3 kB
  • After minification 126.8 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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 97.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 17.7 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. College Advice Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 213.5 kB

  • Original 395.7 kB
  • After minification 368.1 kB
  • After compression 182.2 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 213.5 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 76.6 kB

  • Original 98.4 kB
  • After minification 82.4 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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. Collegeadviceblog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (77%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Advice Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

collegeadviceblog.com accessibility score

53

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

collegeadviceblog.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

collegeadviceblog.com SEO score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Collegeadviceblog.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 Collegeadviceblog.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 College Advice Blog. 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: