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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

nationalmeritgrants.com

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalmeritgrants.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 1.6 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

nationalmeritgrants.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,240 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.227

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationalmeritgrants.com

93 ms

www.nationalmerit.org

48 ms

www.nationalmerit.org

87 ms

www.nationalmerit.org

31 ms

sts.ashx

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nationalmeritgrants.com, 78% (58 requests) were made to Nationalmerit.org and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (331 ms) relates to the external source Nationalmerit.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 138.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nationalmeritgrants.com main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 81.4 kB

  • Original 100.6 kB
  • After minification 98.9 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 81.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. National Merit Grants images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 418.4 kB
  • After minification 418.3 kB
  • After compression 404.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 81.8 kB
  • After minification 69.2 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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. Nationalmeritgrants.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.4 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (68%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Merit Grants. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

nationalmeritgrants.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

nationalmeritgrants.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nationalmeritgrants.com SEO score

68

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Nationalmeritgrants.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 Nationalmeritgrants.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 data is detected on the main page of National Merit Grants. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: