Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

collegepond.com

Study Abroad Consultant: Top Universities, Scholarships and Counselling

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

292 ms

collegepond.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Collegepond content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about collegepond.com

We are the top study abroad consultants in India. Collegpond’s services include study abroad counselling, visa counselling and test preparation for Indian students.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegepond.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegepond.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.collegepond.com

1091 ms

style.css

57 ms

dashicons.min.css

104 ms

jquery-ui-dialog.min.css

55 ms

layerslider.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (125 requests) were addressed to the original Collegepond.com, 8% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Farm2.staticflickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Collegepond.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (44%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Collegepond.com main page is 6.1 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 202.6 kB

  • Original 234.1 kB
  • After minification 216.6 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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 202.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 101.2 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Collegepond images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 889.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 369.2 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 889.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 211.9 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. Collegepond.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (50%)

Requests Now

152

After Optimization

76

The browser has sent 152 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Collegepond. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

collegepond.com accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

collegepond.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

collegepond.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Collegepond.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 Collegepond.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 Collegepond. 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: