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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

studyacrossthepond.com

Study in the UK - for students interested in studying in Britain, England, London, Scotland, Wales, Northern-Ireland

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

982 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studyacrossthepond.com page load time and found that the first response time was 982 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studyacrossthepond.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.078

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studyacrossthepond.com

982 ms

system.base.css

82 ms

system.menus.theme.css

162 ms

system.messages.theme.css

163 ms

system.theme.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Studyacrossthepond.com, 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (982 ms) belongs to the original domain Studyacrossthepond.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 480.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studyacrossthepond.com main page is 3.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 55.4 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 64.6 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 55.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 117.6 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Study Acrossthepond images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 107.5 kB

  • Original 157.9 kB
  • After minification 117.8 kB
  • After compression 50.4 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 107.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 199.6 kB

  • Original 234.2 kB
  • After minification 186.0 kB
  • After compression 34.6 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. Studyacrossthepond.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 199.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (63%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Study Acrossthepond. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 43 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

studyacrossthepond.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

studyacrossthepond.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

studyacrossthepond.com SEO score

82

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Studyacrossthepond.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 Studyacrossthepond.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 Study Acrossthepond. 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: