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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

cegment.com

ClearCost | Higher Education Net Price Calculator for Colleges & Universities

Page Load Speed

10.1 sec in total

First Response

270 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cegment.com page load time and found that the first response time was 270 ms and then it took 9.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cegment.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cegment.com

270 ms

cegment

325 ms

72 ms

332 ms

bootstrap.min.css

4891 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cegment.com, 73% (45 requests) were made to Campuslogic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.8 sec) relates to the external source Campuslogic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cegment.com main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 43.0 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.0 kB, which is 41% 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 43.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 130.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Cegment images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 29.3 kB

  • Original 147.2 kB
  • After minification 147.2 kB
  • After compression 117.9 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 29.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 101.4 kB
  • After minification 101.4 kB
  • After compression 66.6 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. Cegment.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.8 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (44%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cegment. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cegment.com

cegment.com

270 ms

cegment

cegment

325 ms

72 ms

332 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

4891 ms

all.css

all.css

4848 ms

index.css

index.css

1837 ms

products.css

products.css

2150 ms

media.css

media.css

3554 ms

js

js

76 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

4394 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

3399 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

3627 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

4609 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

5448 ms

TimelineMax.min.js

TimelineMax.min.js

4660 ms

scrollmagic.min.js

scrollmagic.min.js

4661 ms

animation.gsap.min.js

animation.gsap.min.js

4712 ms

lottie-player.js

lottie-player.js

5755 ms

lottie-interactivity.min.js

lottie-interactivity.min.js

5235 ms

custom-animation.js

custom-animation.js

5499 ms

vimeo.js

vimeo.js

5474 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

5303 ms

live.js

live.js

337 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

226 ms

Logo-DarkBlue-Blue.svg

Logo-DarkBlue-Blue.svg

525 ms

Logo-White.svg

Logo-White.svg

479 ms

Student-Financial-Success-banner.png

Student-Financial-Success-banner.png

648 ms

Icn_StudentForms.svg

Icn_StudentForms.svg

588 ms

Icn_ScholarshipUniverse.svg

Icn_ScholarshipUniverse.svg

586 ms

Icn_CampusCom.svg

Icn_CampusCom.svg

638 ms

Icn_VirtualAdvisor.svg

Icn_VirtualAdvisor.svg

640 ms

Icn_RaiseMe.svg

Icn_RaiseMe.svg

670 ms

Icn_ClearCost.svg

Icn_ClearCost.svg

675 ms

Icn_SponsoredScholar.svg

Icn_SponsoredScholar.svg

1338 ms

Expected-Results-01.png

Expected-Results-01.png

1635 ms

Expected-Results-02.png

Expected-Results-02.png

1565 ms

Expected-Results-03.png

Expected-Results-03.png

1810 ms

01.svg

01.svg

1613 ms

02.svg

02.svg

1555 ms

03.svg

03.svg

1609 ms

ClearCost-Action-01.png

ClearCost-Action-01.png

2060 ms

Logo-White.svg

Logo-White.svg

1758 ms

font.woff

font.woff

1645 ms

font.woff

font.woff

1670 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1698 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

1755 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

1824 ms

font.woff

font.woff

1753 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

ef158a3e.min.js

ef158a3e.min.js

61 ms

sl.js

sl.js

239 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

112 ms

index.php

index.php

338 ms

ip.json

ip.json

91 ms

r

r

86 ms

collect

collect

55 ms

i

i

48 ms

validateCookie

validateCookie

7 ms

validateCookie

validateCookie

6 ms

27 ms

pd.js

pd.js

52 ms

Accessibility Review

cegment.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

cegment.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

cegment.com SEO score

85

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

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 Cegment.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 Cegment.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cegment. 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: