Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

chegg.com

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Page Load Speed

96 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

73.2 sec

Page Rendered

22.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chegg.com page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 96 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 23 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

chegg.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

chegg.com

63 ms

www.chegg.com

767 ms

gpt.js

445 ms

satelliteLib-c1031098c10bfbe330181ddd96ac8850d00f040d.js

427 ms

74be3b91ac30381d8924dc85e552c53d.css

998 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Chegg.com, 12% (15 requests) were made to C.cheggcdn.com and 12% (14 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (45.3 sec) relates to the external source Dsum-sec.casalemedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.3 MB (57%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Chegg.com main page is 7.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 52.6 kB

  • Original 69.4 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 8.7 kB, which is 13% 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 52.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Chegg images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 3.1 MB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.4 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 3.1 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 207.5 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. Chegg.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (59%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chegg. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

chegg.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chegg.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Chegg.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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