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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thecollegeinvestor.co.uk

The College Investor | Student Loans, Investing, Building Wealth

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

538 ms

Page Rendered

578 ms

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About Website

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The College Investor helps you get out of student loan debt to start investing, generate passive income, and build wealth for the future.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecollegeinvestor.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecollegeinvestor.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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81 ms

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Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thecollegeinvestor.co.uk, 86% (69 requests) were made to Thecollegeinvestor.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (305 ms) relates to the external source Thecollegeinvestor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.8 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

981.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecollegeinvestor.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 916.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 242.7 kB

  • Original 309.5 kB
  • After minification 309.0 kB
  • After compression 66.7 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 242.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 916.4 kB
  • After minification 847.4 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. The College Investor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 193 B

  • Original 41.6 kB
  • After minification 41.6 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. Thecollegeinvestor.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (41%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

44

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The College Investor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thecollegeinvestor.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

thecollegeinvestor.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecollegeinvestor.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Thecollegeinvestor.co.uk 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 Thecollegeinvestor.co.uk 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

thecollegeinvestor.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The College Investor. 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: