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truedegree.com

Find the Right School for Your Degree - TrueDegree.com

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

318 ms

Resources Loaded

808 ms

Page Rendered

289 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing True Degree content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about truedegree.com

Information about degrees programs, career paths, and a matching tool to find the school for your needs. Learn about online learning and financial aid

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Key Findings

We analyzed Truedegree.com page load time and found that the first response time was 318 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

truedegree.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

truedegree.com

318 ms

css

109 ms

ecin.gif

182 ms

top-logo.png

140 ms

facebook-icon.png

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Truedegree.com, 13% (4 requests) were made to Ajax.aspnetcdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Images.higheredgrowth.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (382 ms) belongs to the original domain Truedegree.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 125.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

934.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Truedegree.com main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 910.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 3.5 kB, which is 20% 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 13.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 910.2 kB
  • After minification 881.5 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. True Degree images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 131.8 kB
  • After minification 131.8 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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 83.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (47%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of True Degree. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

truedegree.com SEO score

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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 Truedegree.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 Truedegree.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 True Degree. 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: