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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

studentsearch.collegeboard.org

Connect With Colleges and Scholarships – Student Search Service

Page Load Speed

918 ms in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

518 ms

Page Rendered

267 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentsearch.collegeboard.org page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 785 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studentsearch.collegeboard.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentsearch.collegeboard.org

133 ms

student-search-service

77 ms

launch-9227a8742d03.min.js

93 ms

css_z_Mg-Mp3_ESNKGqlCw9CCgOSJEexeQuNriR7OXAFZcQ.css

97 ms

bf.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Studentsearch.collegeboard.org, 68% (25 requests) were made to Atlas.collegeboard.org and 22% (8 requests) were made to Bigfuture.collegeboard.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (213 ms) relates to the external source Bigfuture.collegeboard.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 610.9 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

626.5 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studentsearch.collegeboard.org main page is 1.2 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. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 33.4 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 16% 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 32.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 463.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 562.7 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 463.9 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 114.8 kB

  • Original 171.2 kB
  • After minification 71.5 kB
  • After compression 56.4 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. Studentsearch.collegeboard.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 114.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (89%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

2

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Search Collegeboard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

studentsearch.collegeboard.org accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

studentsearch.collegeboard.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

studentsearch.collegeboard.org 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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Studentsearch.collegeboard.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 Studentsearch.collegeboard.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 description is not detected on the main page of Student Search Collegeboard. 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: