Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

essec.edu

Accueil || ESSEC

Page Load Speed

14.9 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

11.4 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Essec.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 14.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

essec.edu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,450 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.099

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value58.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

essec.edu

252 ms

www.essec.edu

428 ms

175 ms

6d43f32be88fd955.css

256 ms

ff4a7a35d58cb0a8.css

253 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Essec.edu, 28% (19 requests) were made to Images.ctfassets.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Essec.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (6%)

Content Size

21.0 MB

After Optimization

19.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Essec.edu main page is 21.0 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 20.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 67.8 kB

  • Original 85.1 kB
  • After minification 83.8 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 67.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 20.9 MB
  • After minification 19.7 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. ESSEC images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (46%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESSEC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

essec.edu accessibility score

79

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

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

essec.edu 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

essec.edu SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Essec.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Essec.edu 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 ESSEC. 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: