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About Website

Click here to check amazing College Source content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about collegesource.org

CollegeSource Online features College Catalogs in cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-Year, 4-Year, Graduate and Professional Schools. Hyperlinked tables of contents and indexes.

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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

collegesource.org

46 ms

cso.collegesource.com

38 ms

bootstrap.min.css

10 ms

cso_modified_bootstrap.css

19 ms

jquery-2.2.1.min.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Collegesource.org, 43% (12 requests) were made to Cso.collegesource.com and 32% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (126 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Content Size

412.0 kB

After Optimization

142.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Collegesource.org main page is 412.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 221.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

Original 25.8 kB
After minification 23.1 kB
After compression 5.3 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 20.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

Original 19.9 kB
After minification 13.7 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. Obviously, College Source needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

Original 221.0 kB
After minification 197.3 kB
After compression 100.9 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 120.1 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 122.5 kB

Original 145.3 kB
After minification 139.3 kB
After compression 22.9 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. Collegesource.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 122.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Source. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

EN
Encoding

ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Collegesource.org 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 Collegesource.org 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

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

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CollegeSource Online : The World's College Catalog Resource

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About Website

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Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)