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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

studentscholarships.com

Scholarships - List of College Scholarships and Applications

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

970 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentscholarships.com page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studentscholarships.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,540 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentscholarships.com

14 ms

www.studentscholarships.org

51 ms

studentscholarships.org

181 ms

adsbygoogle.js

168 ms

vendor.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Studentscholarships.com, 52% (34 requests) were made to D2zhlgis9acwvp.cloudfront.net and 14% (9 requests) were made to Studentscholarships.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source D2zhlgis9acwvp.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 133.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studentscholarships.com main page is 3.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 71.7 kB

  • Original 86.8 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.3 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 71.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Student Scholarships images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 477.7 kB
  • After minification 477.7 kB
  • After compression 455.8 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 702 B

  • Original 44.9 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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. Studentscholarships.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (37%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Scholarships. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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14 ms

www.studentscholarships.org

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51 ms

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181 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

168 ms

vendor.css

vendor.css

23 ms

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35 ms

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81 ms

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111 ms

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70 ms

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66 ms

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70 ms

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106 ms

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72 ms

logo.png

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52 ms

campus.jpg

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57 ms

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353 ms

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349 ms

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338 ms

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58 ms

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61 ms

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58 ms

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63 ms

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69 ms

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655 ms

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49 ms

ads

ads

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ads

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Accessibility Review

studentscholarships.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

studentscholarships.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

studentscholarships.com SEO score

92

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

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 Studentscholarships.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 Studentscholarships.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

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