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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

eratecentral.com

E-Rate Central - Trusted E-rate consultants for schools and libraries.

Page Load Speed

955 ms in total

First Response

147 ms

Resources Loaded

592 ms

Page Rendered

216 ms

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About Website

Visit eratecentral.com now to see the best up-to-date E Rate Central content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about eratecentral.com

E-Rate Central is an e-rate consulting firm dedicated to simplifying the e-rate program for schools and libraries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eratecentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 147 ms and then it took 808 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

eratecentral.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eratecentral.com

147 ms

e-ratecentral.com

189 ms

main.js

52 ms

main.css

83 ms

cat.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Eratecentral.com, 91% (29 requests) were made to E-ratecentral.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (189 ms) relates to the external source E-ratecentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.1 kB (53%)

Content Size

123.8 kB

After Optimization

58.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eratecentral.com main page is 123.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 33.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 30.1 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 26.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 24.8 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, E Rate Central needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.6 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 5.1 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Eratecentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (54%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of E Rate Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

eratecentral.com

eratecentral.com

147 ms

e-ratecentral.com

e-ratecentral.com

189 ms

main.js

main.js

52 ms

main.css

main.css

83 ms

cat.css

cat.css

57 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

37 ms

bullet_arrow_black.gif

bullet_arrow_black.gif

158 ms

ERC.gif

ERC.gif

73 ms

slogan.jpg

slogan.jpg

76 ms

homeOn.gif

homeOn.gif

74 ms

servicesOff.gif

servicesOff.gif

72 ms

appOff.gif

appOff.gif

74 ms

frmsOff.gif

frmsOff.gif

75 ms

stateOff.gif

stateOff.gif

77 ms

vendOff.gif

vendOff.gif

76 ms

resOff.gif

resOff.gif

75 ms

contactOff.gif

contactOff.gif

102 ms

bg_leftNav.jpg

bg_leftNav.jpg

101 ms

icon-search-magnifier.png

icon-search-magnifier.png

102 ms

leftNav_home_qlinks.gif

leftNav_home_qlinks.gif

106 ms

leftNav_home_loop.gif

leftNav_home_loop.gif

107 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

101 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

117 ms

icon-linkedin.png

icon-linkedin.png

117 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

117 ms

banner_erate_organizer.gif

banner_erate_organizer.gif

116 ms

pdf.gif

pdf.gif

117 ms

bullet_arrow.gif

bullet_arrow.gif

117 ms

bullet_arrow_gray.gif

bullet_arrow_gray.gif

141 ms

shim.gif

shim.gif

141 ms

collect

collect

22 ms

bullet_arrow_black.gif

bullet_arrow_black.gif

28 ms

Accessibility Review

eratecentral.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

eratecentral.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

eratecentral.com SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Eratecentral.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 Eratecentral.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

eratecentral.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of E Rate Central. 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: