Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

gradvocates.com

Gradvocates | We Edit Personal Statements, Resumes, & Cover letters

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradvocates.com page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gradvocates.com performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.271

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gradvocates.com

161 ms

www.gradvocates.com

249 ms

style.css

71 ms

clickheat.js

1462 ms

menu_index_blue_hover.png

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Gradvocates.com, 5% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Gradvocates.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

323.4 kB

After Optimization

301.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Gradvocates.com main page is 323.4 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. Images take 289.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 7.4 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 4.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 289.8 kB
  • After minification 279.8 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. Gradvocates images are well optimized though.

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

-82%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Gradvocates.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gradvocates. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

gradvocates.com accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

gradvocates.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gradvocates.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gradvocates.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Gradvocates.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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