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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

degreesmatch.com

DegreesMatch - Matching Students with the Careers of their Dreams

Page Load Speed

648 ms in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

396 ms

Page Rendered

132 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Degreesmatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 528 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

degreesmatch.com performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

degreesmatch.com

120 ms

style.css

31 ms

ga.js

14 ms

spacer.gif

34 ms

degreesmatch-v2-cut_01.png

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Degreesmatch.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (234 ms) belongs to the original domain Degreesmatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

347.3 kB

After Optimization

289.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Degreesmatch.com main page is 347.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 314.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 9.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 314.3 kB
  • After minification 269.1 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, Degrees Match needs image optimization as it can save up to 45.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 3.4 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 763 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. Degreesmatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Degrees Match. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

degreesmatch.com

degreesmatch.com

120 ms

style.css

style.css

31 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

34 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_01.png

60 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_02.png

61 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_03.png

61 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_06l_bg.png

62 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_06l.png

64 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_04.png

62 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_05_bg.png

87 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_05.png

88 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_06r.png

87 ms

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234 ms

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91 ms

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degreesmatch-cetner-flor.png

92 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_09.png

114 ms

chicago.png

chicago.png

115 ms

logo-gcu2.gif

logo-gcu2.gif

116 ms

itt_technical_institute.png

itt_technical_institute.png

121 ms

nau.png

nau.png

121 ms

maryland.jpg

maryland.jpg

142 ms

vc.png

vc.png

143 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_11.png

171 ms

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degreesmatch-v2-cut_12.png

150 ms

degreesmatchv2-warn.png

degreesmatchv2-warn.png

151 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

degreesmatch.com accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

degreesmatch.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

SEO Factors

degreesmatch.com SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Degreesmatch.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 Degreesmatch.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 Degrees Match. 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: