Access thecollegesolutionblog.com. The College Solution Blog by Lynn O'Shaughnessy

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.121

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

69/100

10%

www.thecollegesolutionblog.com

455 ms

style.css

358 ms

tabber.js

362 ms

prototype.js

113 ms

glider_effects.js

370 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Thecollegesolutionblog.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (692 ms) belongs to the original domain Thecollegesolutionblog.com.

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Thecollegesolutionblog.com main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 123.2 kB

Original 146.8 kB
After minification 140.9 kB
After compression 23.6 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 123.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

Original 1.7 MB
After minification 1.6 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. The College Solution Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 137.8 kB

Original 295.1 kB
After minification 293.8 kB
After compression 157.3 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 137.8 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

Original 29.3 kB
After minification 21.9 kB
After compression 15.2 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. Thecollegesolutionblog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The College Solution Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.