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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

saraharberson.com

Sara Harberson | America's College Admissions Counselor

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

595 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Sara Harberson content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about saraharberson.com

Sara Harberson, a former dean of admissions, provides expert college admissions advice to families, with private college counseling and Application Nation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saraharberson.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 1.7 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

saraharberson.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.saraharberson.com

67 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

51 ms

project.css

49 ms

legacyGalleryModule.css

61 ms

js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Saraharberson.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to No-cache.hubspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (558 ms) relates to the external source 502949.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saraharberson.com main page is 1.6 MB. 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 88.1 kB

  • Original 104.4 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 88.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Sara Harberson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 101.0 kB
  • After minification 101.0 kB
  • After compression 93.2 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

-39%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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. Saraharberson.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.2 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (45%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sara Harberson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.saraharberson.com

www.saraharberson.com

67 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

jquery-1.11.2.js

51 ms

project.css

project.css

49 ms

legacyGalleryModule.css

legacyGalleryModule.css

61 ms

js

js

80 ms

fontawesome.min.css

fontawesome.min.css

60 ms

brands.min.css

brands.min.css

75 ms

regular.min.css

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101 ms

solid.min.css

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102 ms

layout.min.css

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49 ms

Sara_Harberson_June_2017-style.css

Sara_Harberson_June_2017-style.css

66 ms

home.min.css

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73 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

224 ms

current.js

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79 ms

current.js

current.js

73 ms

back-btn.js

back-btn.js

77 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

74 ms

jquery.counterup.min.js

jquery.counterup.min.js

102 ms

embed.js

embed.js

46 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

316 ms

project.js

project.js

99 ms

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100 ms

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110 ms

v2.js

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243 ms

Sara_Harberson_June_2017-main.min.js

Sara_Harberson_June_2017-main.min.js

126 ms

502949.js

502949.js

214 ms

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index.js

137 ms

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91 ms

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90 ms

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184 ms

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260 ms

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What%20You%20Need%20to%20Know%20About%20Doing%20Research%20in%20High%20School.jpg

558 ms

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77 ms

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261 ms

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74 ms

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215 ms

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214 ms

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214 ms

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249 ms

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210 ms

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259 ms

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260 ms

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259 ms

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260 ms

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325 ms

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440 ms

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324 ms

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322 ms

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320 ms

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160 ms

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161 ms

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Accessibility Review

saraharberson.com accessibility score

74

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

saraharberson.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

saraharberson.com SEO score

75

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Saraharberson.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 Saraharberson.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

saraharberson.com

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