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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

higheredmag.org

Higher Ed Mag - online sources for students and higher education professionals in colleges and universities and for college admissions, recruitment an...

Page Load Speed

298 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

183 ms

Page Rendered

59 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Higheredmag.org page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 242 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

higheredmag.org performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

higheredmag.org

56 ms

www.higheredmag.com

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Higheredmag.org, 50% (1 request) were made to Higheredmag.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (126 ms) relates to the external source Higheredmag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.1 kB (54%)

Content Size

259.9 kB

After Optimization

120.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Higheredmag.org main page is 259.9 kB. 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. Javascripts take 152.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 38 B

  • Original 167 B
  • After minification 154 B
  • After compression 129 B

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 38 B or 23% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 70.8 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. Higher Ed Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 108.3 kB

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 113.5 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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 108.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 31.4 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Higheredmag.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

higheredmag.org accessibility score

81

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.

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

higheredmag.org best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

higheredmag.org SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Higheredmag.org 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 Higheredmag.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 Higher Ed Mag. 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: