Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

info.shorelight.com

Higher Education for International Students in the USA | Shorelight

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

861 ms

Page Rendered

259 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Info.shorelight.com page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

info.shorelight.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,120 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

info.shorelight.com

111 ms

info.shorelight.com

165 ms

shorelight.com

23 ms

shorelight.com

130 ms

gtm.js

342 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Info.shorelight.com, 86% (54 requests) were made to Shorelight.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (360 ms) relates to the external source Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.1 MB (76%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Info.shorelight.com main page is 8.1 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. HTML takes 7.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 6.1 MB

  • Original 7.4 MB
  • After minification 7.4 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 6.1 MB or 82% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 871 B

  • Original 646.5 kB
  • After minification 646.5 kB
  • After compression 645.6 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 932 B

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 34.8 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. Info.shorelight.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (94%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Info Shorelight. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

info.shorelight.com accessibility score

80

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

info.shorelight.com SEO score

81

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

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

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 Info.shorelight.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 Info.shorelight.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 Info Shorelight. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: