Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

cso.collegesource.com

CollegeSource Online : The World's College Catalog Resource

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

245 ms

Resources Loaded

664 ms

Page Rendered

128 ms

cso.collegesource.com screenshot

About Website

Visit cso.collegesource.com now to see the best up-to-date Cso College Source content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cso.collegesource.com

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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Key Findings

We analyzed Cso.collegesource.com page load time and found that the first response time was 245 ms and then it took 792 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cso.collegesource.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cso.collegesource.com

245 ms

cso01.css

132 ms

CSO_01.png

347 ms

CSLogo_white_small.png

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Cso.collegesource.com, 50% (2 requests) were made to Collegesource.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (347 ms) relates to the external source Collegesource.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.0 kB (34%)

Content Size

53.4 kB

After Optimization

35.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Cso.collegesource.com main page is 53.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 43.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 7.6 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 5.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 43.7 kB
  • After minification 33.0 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, Cso College Source needs image optimization as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 297 B

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. Cso.collegesource.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cso College Source. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

cso.collegesource.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

cso.collegesource.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cso.collegesource.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cso.collegesource.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 Cso.collegesource.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Cso 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: