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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

counsellingcentral.com

Counselling Central | Telephone and Video Counselling

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Counsellingcentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

counsellingcentral.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

counsellingcentral.com

161 ms

www.counsellingcentral.com

1604 ms

adsbygoogle.js

123 ms

main.min.css

192 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Counsellingcentral.com, 10% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Counsellingcentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 476.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Counsellingcentral.com main page is 2.9 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. 75% 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

-84%

Potential reduce by 234.9 kB

  • Original 278.8 kB
  • After minification 270.4 kB
  • After compression 43.9 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 234.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 80.9 kB

  • 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. Counselling Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 51.4 kB

  • Original 608.2 kB
  • After minification 608.2 kB
  • After compression 556.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 108.8 kB

  • Original 252.0 kB
  • After minification 251.9 kB
  • After compression 143.2 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. Counsellingcentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.8 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (70%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Counselling Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

counsellingcentral.com accessibility score

100

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

Best Practices

counsellingcentral.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

counsellingcentral.com SEO score

91

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

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 Counsellingcentral.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 Counsellingcentral.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 description is not detected on the main page of Counselling Central. 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: