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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

ascenglish.com

English Language School in Boston | ASC English School

Page Load Speed

837 ms in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

518 ms

Page Rendered

227 ms

About Website

Visit ascenglish.com now to see the best up-to-date ASC English content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ascenglish.com

Since 1993, ASC English School provides students from around the globe an English language school in Boston! Call (617) 730-3705 to learn more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ascenglish.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 745 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ascenglish.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ascenglish.com

92 ms

ascenglish.com

237 ms

regular.css

76 ms

solid.css

88 ms

brands.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ascenglish.com, 25% (15 requests) were made to Stcdn.leadconnectorhq.com and 25% (15 requests) were made to Images.leadconnectorhq.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (237 ms) belongs to the original domain Ascenglish.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 611.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ascenglish.com main page is 4.2 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. 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 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 343.0 kB

  • Original 409.9 kB
  • After minification 380.3 kB
  • After compression 66.9 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 343.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 268.5 kB

  • Original 3.8 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. ASC English images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 412 B

  • Original 15.9 kB
  • After minification 15.9 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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. Ascenglish.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (31%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ASC English. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ascenglish.com accessibility score

80

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

ascenglish.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ascenglish.com SEO score

98

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