Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

224 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

go.collegeforamerica.org screenshot

About Website

Visit go.collegeforamerica.org now to see the best up-to-date Go Collegeforamerica content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about go.collegeforamerica.org

College for America partners with employers nationwide to offer fully accredited, competency-based college degrees for working adults at just $2,500 a year

Visit go.collegeforamerica.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Go.collegeforamerica.org page load time and found that the first response time was 224 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

go.collegeforamerica.org performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

collegeforamerica.org

224 ms

css

23 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

67 ms

plugins.css

117 ms

style.css

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Go.collegeforamerica.org, 11% (8 requests) were made to Graph.facebook.com and 11% (8 requests) were made to Linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (838 ms) relates to the external source Collegeforamerica.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 650.8 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Go.collegeforamerica.org main page is 2.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 55.9 kB

  • Original 66.7 kB
  • After minification 60.1 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 55.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Go Collegeforamerica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 409.4 kB

  • Original 496.5 kB
  • After minification 285.8 kB
  • After compression 87.1 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 409.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 135.7 kB

  • Original 158.9 kB
  • After minification 133.3 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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. Go.collegeforamerica.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 135.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (38%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Collegeforamerica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

go.collegeforamerica.org SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Go.collegeforamerica.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Go.collegeforamerica.org 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 Go Collegeforamerica. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: