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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

diplomaguide.com

Your guide to a high school diploma or GED, college degrees & diplomas, and career research for after graduation

Page Load Speed

613 ms in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

428 ms

Page Rendered

134 ms

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About Website

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A guide to earning a high school diploma or GED, the college admissions process, and earning your bachelor's degree or master's degree.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Diplomaguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 562 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

diplomaguide.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

learningpath.org

51 ms

modernizr.min.js

29 ms

guid.js

8 ms

eventLogging.js

15 ms

trck.js

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Diplomaguide.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (203 ms) relates to the external source Learningpath.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

397.3 kB

After Optimization

363.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Diplomaguide.com main page is 397.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 291.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.6 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 23.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 291.2 kB
  • After minification 288.9 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. Diploma Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 67.3 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 59.5 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 7.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 838 B

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Diplomaguide.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (16%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

41

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Diploma Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

learningpath.org

learningpath.org

51 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

29 ms

guid.js

guid.js

8 ms

eventLogging.js

eventLogging.js

15 ms

trck.js

trck.js

15 ms

eventLoggingInit.js

eventLoggingInit.js

27 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

26 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

26 ms

hint.jquery.js

hint.jquery.js

17 ms

main.js

main.js

24 ms

style.css

style.css

21 ms

searchBar.jpg

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64 ms

logo.png

logo.png

11 ms

navigation.jpg

navigation.jpg

12 ms

homepageHero.jpg

homepageHero.jpg

10 ms

findaschoolnow.jpg

findaschoolnow.jpg

12 ms

eGuideHighlightBg.jpg

eGuideHighlightBg.jpg

12 ms

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scrollLeft.png

13 ms

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15 ms

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46 ms

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scrollRight.png

146 ms

footerLogo.png

footerLogo.png

150 ms

Accessibility Review

diplomaguide.com accessibility score

71

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

diplomaguide.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

diplomaguide.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Diplomaguide.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 Diplomaguide.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

diplomaguide.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Diploma Guide. 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: