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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

scholarselect.com

SmarterSelect - Application Management System priced for non-profits.

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

677 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholarselect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scholarselect.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.273

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scholarselect.com

40 ms

smarterselect.com

84 ms

www.smarterselect.com

103 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

57 ms

layout.min.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scholarselect.com, 51% (45 requests) were made to Smarterselect.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to No-cache.hubspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Smarterselect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

947.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scholarselect.com main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 854.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 125.6 kB

  • Original 143.4 kB
  • After minification 135.1 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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 125.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 42.5 kB

  • Original 854.5 kB
  • After minification 812.0 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. Scholar Select images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 103.6 kB
  • After minification 103.6 kB
  • After compression 96.1 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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. Scholarselect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (53%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholar Select. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scholarselect.com

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40 ms

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84 ms

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103 ms

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57 ms

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196 ms

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92 ms

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416 ms

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520 ms

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Accessibility Review

scholarselect.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

scholarselect.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scholarselect.com SEO score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Scholarselect.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 Scholarselect.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

scholarselect.com

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