Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gradschoolmatch.com

Find the Right Grad School Search Tool | GradSchoolMatch.com

Page Load Speed

908 ms in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

820 ms

Page Rendered

57 ms

gradschoolmatch.com screenshot

About Website

Visit gradschoolmatch.com now to see the best up-to-date Grad School Match content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gradschoolmatch.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradschoolmatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 877 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gradschoolmatch.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,400 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gradschoolmatch.com

31 ms

www.gradschoolmatch.com

48 ms

grad-school-journey.html

290 ms

at.js

43 ms

icon

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Gradschoolmatch.com, 64% (21 requests) were made to Ets.org and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (290 ms) relates to the external source Ets.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

340.0 kB

After Optimization

292.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Gradschoolmatch.com main page is 340.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 274.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 65.2 kB
  • After minification 62.7 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 47.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 274.8 kB
  • After minification 274.8 kB
  • After compression 274.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (85%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grad School Match. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gradschoolmatch.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

gradschoolmatch.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gradschoolmatch.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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gradschoolmatch.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Gradschoolmatch.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 Grad School 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: