Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

5starmandarin.com

5 Star Mandarin--Your Online Chinese Learning Destination!

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

112 ms

5starmandarin.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing 5 Star Mandarin content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about 5starmandarin.com

Kena Kong and her team are experienced online Mandarin instructors providing Global training services. They offer Real Life Courses, HSK Preparation Courses and Tailor Made Courses. Serve expat commun...

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Key Findings

We analyzed 5starmandarin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 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

5starmandarin.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.5starmandarin.com

54 ms

site.css

21 ms

duel.js

13 ms

js

138 ms

addthis_widget.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original 5starmandarin.com, 50% (14 requests) were made to Img1.wsimg.com and 21% (6 requests) were made to Nebula.wsimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Nebula.wsimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.3 kB (1%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of 5starmandarin.com main page is 3.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 30.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 744 B

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. 5 Star Mandarin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 103.9 kB
  • After minification 103.7 kB
  • After compression 95.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 6.6 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. 5starmandarin.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 5 Star Mandarin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

5starmandarin.com accessibility score

69

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

5starmandarin.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

5starmandarin.com SEO score

69

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

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 5starmandarin.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 5starmandarin.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 data is detected on the main page of 5 Star Mandarin. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: