Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

toefl.cambridge.org

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Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

595 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Toefl.cambridge.org page load time and found that the first response time was 595 ms and then it took 2.3 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

toefl.cambridge.org performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

toefl.cambridge.org

595 ms

normalize.css

426 ms

foundation.css

1045 ms

jquery-ui.css

597 ms

app.css

766 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Toefl.cambridge.org, 12% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Toefl.cambridge.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 919.3 kB (84%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

180.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Toefl.cambridge.org main page is 1.1 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 745.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 28.3 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 3.5 kB, which is 12% 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 23.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 203 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB

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. TOEFL Cambridge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 607.7 kB

  • Original 745.2 kB
  • After minification 492.0 kB
  • After compression 137.4 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 607.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 288.3 kB

  • Original 321.4 kB
  • After minification 241.2 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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. Toefl.cambridge.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 288.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (57%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TOEFL Cambridge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

toefl.cambridge.org accessibility score

87

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.

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

Best Practices

toefl.cambridge.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

toefl.cambridge.org SEO score

83

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

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 Toefl.cambridge.org 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 Toefl.cambridge.org 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 TOEFL Cambridge. 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: