Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

collegenet.com

CollegeNET - Serving Higher Ed Admissions, Scheduling & more!

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

235 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

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

CollegeNET, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based, privately held company providing Intelligent Connections® web-based on-demand technologies to colleges, universities, and non-profits.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegenet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 235 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegenet.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegenet.com

235 ms

www.collegenet.com

391 ms

app

230 ms

legacy_skin.css

83 ms

legacy_pages.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Collegenet.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (553 ms) belongs to the original domain Collegenet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 404.8 kB (43%)

Content Size

945.2 kB

After Optimization

540.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Collegenet.com main page is 945.2 kB. 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 403.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 40.4 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 5.5 kB, which is 14% 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 31.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 403.8 kB
  • After minification 379.4 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. CollegeNET images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 238.3 kB

  • Original 369.4 kB
  • After minification 356.8 kB
  • After compression 131.1 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 238.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 110.6 kB

  • Original 131.7 kB
  • After minification 89.8 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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. Collegenet.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 110.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (37%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CollegeNET. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

collegenet.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

collegenet.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

collegenet.com SEO score

62

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

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