Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

840 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

150 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradnet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 840 ms and then it took 2.6 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

gradnet.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gradnet.com

840 ms

logo.png

819 ms

undercontruction.png

1576 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gradnet.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Gradnet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

156.8 kB

After Optimization

145.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Gradnet.com main page is 156.8 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 155.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 407 B

  • Original 932 B
  • After minification 905 B
  • After compression 525 B

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 407 B or 44% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 155.9 kB
  • After minification 145.0 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. Gradnet images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gradnet. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

gradnet.com accessibility score

89

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gradnet.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gradnet.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Gradnet.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 Gradnet.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

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