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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

academicfamilies.com

UK school admissions and guardianship by Academic Families

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

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About Website

Visit academicfamilies.com now to see the best up-to-date Academic Families content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about academicfamilies.com

We support your family during your child’s time at a UK boarding school with our AEGIS guardianship protection and British Council accredited enrolment service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Academicfamilies.com page load time and found that the first response time was 402 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

academicfamilies.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

academicfamilies.com

402 ms

flexslider.css

78 ms

all.css

156 ms

style.css

232 ms

css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Academicfamilies.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.2 sec) relates to the external source Koi-3qnf3zy9na.marketingautomation.services.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 275.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Academicfamilies.com main page is 5.1 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 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 119.8 kB

  • Original 146.8 kB
  • After minification 141.0 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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 119.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 138.8 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Academic Families images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 196.0 kB
  • After minification 196.0 kB
  • After compression 182.3 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 2.8 kB

  • Original 130.6 kB
  • After minification 130.6 kB
  • After compression 127.8 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. Academicfamilies.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (54%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Academic Families. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

academicfamilies.com

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402 ms

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78 ms

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156 ms

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232 ms

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50 ms

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50 ms

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45 ms

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255 ms

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47 ms

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463 ms

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394 ms

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403 ms

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406 ms

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89 ms

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45 ms

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406 ms

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414 ms

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45 ms

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517 ms

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517 ms

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518 ms

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517 ms

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640 ms

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640 ms

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639 ms

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233 ms

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368 ms

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232 ms

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233 ms

insight.min.js

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234 ms

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Academic-Families-white-transparents-logo.png

231 ms

parents-white.png

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230 ms

parents-blue.png

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231 ms

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students-white.png

232 ms

students-blue.png

students-blue.png

231 ms

schools-white.png

schools-white.png

231 ms

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schools-blue.png

365 ms

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agencies-white.png

365 ms

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365 ms

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364 ms

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364 ms

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434 ms

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902 ms

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748 ms

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517 ms

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590 ms

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512 ms

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448 ms

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526 ms

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591 ms

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596 ms

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607 ms

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669 ms

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676 ms

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906 ms

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826 ms

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671 ms

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760 ms

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833 ms

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192 ms

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136 ms

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191 ms

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618 ms

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5212 ms

Accessibility Review

academicfamilies.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

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

academicfamilies.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

academicfamilies.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Academicfamilies.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Academicfamilies.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 Academic Families. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: