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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

degreechoices.com

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Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

599 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Degreechoices.com page load time and found that the first response time was 599 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

degreechoices.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,380 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.degreechoices.com

599 ms

base.css

22 ms

mobile-menu.css

34 ms

bootstrap.css

37 ms

degrees.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Degreechoices.com, 45% (44 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 19% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (859 ms) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.1 kB (37%)

Content Size

413.6 kB

After Optimization

262.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Degreechoices.com main page is 413.6 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. 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. HTML takes 183.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 150.2 kB

  • Original 183.7 kB
  • After minification 183.6 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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 150.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 414 B

  • Original 59.1 kB
  • After minification 58.7 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. Degreechoices images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 292 B

  • Original 140.0 kB
  • After minification 140.0 kB
  • After compression 139.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 183 B

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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. Degreechoices.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (56%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Degreechoices. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.degreechoices.com

www.degreechoices.com

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Accessibility Review

degreechoices.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

degreechoices.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

degreechoices.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    UTF-8

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

degreechoices.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Degreechoices. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: