Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

simonscholars.org

Simon Scholars - From Adversity to Accomplishment - Scholarship Program

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

652 ms

About Website

Welcome to simonscholars.org homepage info - get ready to check Simon Scholars best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about simonscholars.org

Simon Scholars is a unique scholarship program that begins at the end of a student’s sophomore year in high school and continues through the completion of college. It is designed to help students faci...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simonscholars.org page load time and found that the first response time was 202 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

simonscholars.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

simonscholars.org

202 ms

simonscholars.org

347 ms

styles.css

20 ms

style.min.css

35 ms

theme.min.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Simonscholars.org, 15% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (458 ms) relates to the external source Professionalgarden.es.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Simonscholars.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 647.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 81.3 kB

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 98.3 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 81.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8 B

  • Original 647.1 kB
  • After minification 647.1 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. Simon Scholars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 365.7 kB
  • After minification 365.7 kB
  • After compression 364.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 106.1 kB
  • After compression 103.4 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. Simonscholars.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (78%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Simon Scholars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

simonscholars.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

simonscholars.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

simonscholars.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Simonscholars.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 Simonscholars.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 data is detected on the main page of Simon Scholars. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: