Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

icbt.lk

ICBT Campus – Leading Tertiary Education Provider In Sri Lanka

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

421 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Icbt.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 421 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

icbt.lk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

icbt.lk

421 ms

icbt.lk

54 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

15 ms

chaty-front.min.css

16 ms

style.min.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 221 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (200 requests) were addressed to the original Icbt.lk, 2% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (465 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (19%)

Content Size

14.9 MB

After Optimization

12.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Icbt.lk main page is 14.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 289.2 kB

  • Original 342.0 kB
  • After minification 318.6 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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 289.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 163.2 kB

  • Original 11.5 MB
  • After minification 11.4 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. ICBT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 435.0 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 1.1 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 220.8 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. Icbt.lk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 130 (61%)

Requests Now

213

After Optimization

83

The browser has sent 213 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ICBT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 62 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

icbt.lk accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

icbt.lk 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

icbt.lk SEO score

91

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 Icbt.lk 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 Icbt.lk 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 ICBT. 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: