Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

webster.ch

Webster Geneva Campus | Earn Your Degree in Switzerland

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

990 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

411 ms

About Website

Visit webster.ch now to see the best up-to-date Webster content for Switzerland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about webster.ch

Webster Geneva Campus is an accredited and highly-rated American university in Switzerland that offers a variety of English-taught degrees. Learn more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webster.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 990 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

webster.ch performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,600 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.243

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

webster.ch

990 ms

www.webster.ch

1860 ms

reset.css

92 ms

base.css

444 ms

tablet_fluid.css

254 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Webster.ch, 12% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Webster.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Webster.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 572.1 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

814.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Webster.ch main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 683.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 82.3 kB
  • After minification 78.0 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 60.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 84.1 kB

  • Original 683.3 kB
  • After minification 599.1 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. Obviously, Webster needs image optimization as it can save up to 84.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 291.6 kB

  • Original 457.8 kB
  • After minification 439.8 kB
  • After compression 166.2 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 291.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 136.0 kB

  • Original 162.9 kB
  • After minification 152.6 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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. Webster.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (46%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Webster. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

webster.ch accessibility score

89

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

webster.ch best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

webster.ch 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

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

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 Webster.ch 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 Webster.ch 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 Webster. 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: