Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

alps.education

Alps | School data analysis | Student improvement at KS4 and KS5

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

537 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alps.education page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 2.1 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

alps.education performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,120 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.695

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alps.education

64 ms

alps.education

413 ms

acf-widget-front.css

25 ms

light-box-styles.css

30 ms

swiper.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Alps.education, 16% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (482 ms) belongs to the original domain Alps.education.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 377.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Alps.education main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 374.0 kB

  • Original 423.3 kB
  • After minification 423.2 kB
  • After compression 49.3 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 374.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 272 B

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Alps images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 282 B

  • Original 287.4 kB
  • After minification 287.4 kB
  • After compression 287.1 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 74.9 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB
  • After compression 72.4 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. Alps.education has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (68%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alps. 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 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alps.education accessibility score

75

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

alps.education best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

alps.education SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Alps.education 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 Alps.education 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 Alps. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: