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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

blog.scholarshipamerica.org

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

535 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.scholarshipamerica.org page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.scholarshipamerica.org performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.scholarshipamerica.org

8 ms

346 ms

gtm.js

115 ms

fbevents.js

50 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.scholarshipamerica.org, 63% (60 requests) were made to Scholarshipamerica.org and 3% (3 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (391 ms) relates to the external source Script.crazyegg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

955.8 kB

After Optimization

764.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.scholarshipamerica.org main page is 955.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 489.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 97.9 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 114.1 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 97.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 489.0 kB
  • After minification 469.3 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. Blog Scholarship America images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 58.7 kB

  • Original 171.3 kB
  • After minification 171.3 kB
  • After compression 112.6 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 58.7 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 174.5 kB
  • After minification 159.9 kB
  • After compression 159.3 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. Blog.scholarshipamerica.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (78%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Scholarship America. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blog.scholarshipamerica.org accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

blog.scholarshipamerica.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blog.scholarshipamerica.org SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Blog.scholarshipamerica.org 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 Blog.scholarshipamerica.org 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

blog.scholarshipamerica.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Blog Scholarship America. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: