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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ash.nl

Home - American School of The Hague

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

300 ms

Resources Loaded

908 ms

Page Rendered

176 ms

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About Website

Welcome to ash.nl homepage info - get ready to check Ash best content for Netherlands right away, or after learning these important things about ash.nl

American School of The Hague (ASH) is a co-educational international school for students ages 3 to 18. A leading international school in the Netherlands, we proudly welcome students from over 70 natio...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ash.nl page load time and found that the first response time was 300 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

ash.nl performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,150 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.469

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ash.nl

300 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

willow.min.js

20 ms

jquery.cycle.lite.min.js

21 ms

menu.min.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Ash.nl, 39% (25 requests) were made to Cdn.media78.whipplehill.net and 22% (14 requests) were made to Images.myschoolcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (558 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.media78.whipplehill.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 140.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ash.nl main page is 2.2 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 34.4 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.1 kB, which is 15% 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 29.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Ash images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 80.7 kB

  • Original 114.5 kB
  • After minification 103.6 kB
  • After compression 33.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 80.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Ash.nl needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (27%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ash. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ash.nl

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300 ms

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30 ms

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20 ms

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21 ms

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42 ms

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43 ms

jquery.bulletin.js

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43 ms

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43 ms

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55 ms

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41 ms

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12 ms

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Accessibility Review

ash.nl accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

ash.nl 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ash.nl SEO score

86

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

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 Ash.nl 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 Ash.nl 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

ash.nl

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