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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

mcat-prep.com

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Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

378 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcat-prep.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 1.8 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

mcat-prep.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcat-prep.com

48 ms

www.mcat-prep.com

80 ms

js

115 ms

optimize.js

67 ms

optimize.js

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Mcat-prep.com, 13% (8 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (555 ms) relates to the external source Chimpstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 676.3 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

582.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mcat-prep.com main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 584.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 74.1 kB

  • Original 89.5 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 19.8 kB, which is 22% 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 74.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 17.9 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, MCAT Prep needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 85.0 kB

  • Original 563.3 kB
  • After minification 563.3 kB
  • After compression 478.2 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 85.0 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 513.9 kB

  • Original 584.3 kB
  • After minification 109.7 kB
  • After compression 70.4 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. Mcat-prep.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 513.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (80%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MCAT Prep. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mcat-prep.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

mcat-prep.com best practices score

67

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

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mcat-prep.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mcat-prep.com 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 Mcat-prep.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 MCAT Prep. 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: