Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

brainline.com

Innovative, Quality-driven Online School - IEB Recognised

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

572 ms

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About Website

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Innovative, quality-driven online school, providing homeschooling for Grade R – 12 for over 35 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brainline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 3.1 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

brainline.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brainline.com

45 ms

www.brainline.com

1655 ms

brainline.webflow.442fe0863.min.css

36 ms

webfont.js

33 ms

js

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Brainline.com, 50% (26 requests) were made to Assets-global.website-files.com and 27% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Brainline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 266.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Brainline.com main page is 2.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 51.3 kB

  • Original 64.9 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 51.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 214.8 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Brainline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 470 B

  • Original 127.0 kB
  • After minification 127.0 kB
  • After compression 126.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 36.7 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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. Brainline.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (33%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brainline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

brainline.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

Best Practices

brainline.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

brainline.com SEO score

87

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

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 Brainline.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 Brainline.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 Brainline. 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: