Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

scholaraid.net

Top College Scholarships for High School & College Students 2023

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

314 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

671 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholaraid.net page load time and found that the first response time was 314 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scholaraid.net performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.scholarships.com

314 ms

navigation.css

177 ms

sitewide.css

186 ms

jquery.modal.min.css

180 ms

homepage.css

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Scholaraid.net, 2% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Scholarships.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.7 kB (39%)

Content Size

155.0 kB

After Optimization

94.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Scholaraid.net main page is 155.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 70.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 70.2 kB
  • After minification 70.2 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 58.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Scholaraid needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 109 B

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 68.3 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 13.7 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. Scholaraid.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (37%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholaraid. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scholaraid.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scholaraid.net 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

scholaraid.net SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Scholaraid.net 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 Scholaraid.net 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 Scholaraid. 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: