Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% 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

scholorships.com

Top College Scholarships for High School & College Students 2023

Page Load Speed

223 ms in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

186 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholorships.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 186 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Scholorships.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

scholorships.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.scholarships.com

37 ms

v1

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Scholorships.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (37 ms) relates to the external source Scholarships.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

632.7 kB

After Optimization

495.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Scholorships.com main page is 632.7 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 284.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 16.9 kB
  • After minification 16.9 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 9.4 kB or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 284.8 kB
  • After minification 275.6 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. Scholorships images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 90.9 kB

  • Original 258.4 kB
  • After minification 258.4 kB
  • After compression 167.5 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 90.9 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 72.5 kB
  • After minification 72.4 kB
  • After compression 44.7 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. Scholorships.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.8 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholorships. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

scholorships.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scholorships.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

scholorships.com 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 Scholorships.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 Scholorships.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

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