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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

collegesplus.com

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Page Load Speed

20.5 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

20.1 sec

Page Rendered

110 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegesplus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 20.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

collegesplus.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegesplus.com

309 ms

default.css

76 ms

popmenu.js

112 ms

swfobject_modified.js

145 ms

p7popmenu.js

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Collegesplus.com, 8% (1 request) were made to Adobe.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Adobe.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

88.7 kB

After Optimization

75.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Collegesplus.com main page is 88.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 63.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 10.1 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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. 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 8.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 63.2 kB
  • After minification 61.6 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. College Splus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 11.9 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 2.8 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 504 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Collegesplus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 504 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Splus. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

collegesplus.com

collegesplus.com

309 ms

default.css

default.css

76 ms

popmenu.js

popmenu.js

112 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

145 ms

p7popmenu.js

p7popmenu.js

133 ms

pmv10.css

pmv10.css

49 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

142 ms

img01.gif

img01.gif

127 ms

plum.jpg

plum.jpg

73 ms

home.jpg

home.jpg

198 ms

light_east.gif

light_east.gif

103 ms

get_flash_player.gif

get_flash_player.gif

19621 ms

Accessibility Review

collegesplus.com accessibility score

80

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

collegesplus.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

collegesplus.com SEO score

67

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

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Collegesplus.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 Collegesplus.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 College Splus. 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: