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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

britishcouncil.org

British Council | The UK’s international culture and education organisation

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

996 ms

Page Rendered

730 ms

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About Website

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The British Council is the United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britishcouncil.org page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

britishcouncil.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,970 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.britishcouncil.org

209 ms

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Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Britishcouncil.org, 17% (8 requests) were made to Sui.britishcouncil.org and 9% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (436 ms) belongs to the original domain Britishcouncil.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.2 kB (37%)

Content Size

581.5 kB

After Optimization

365.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Britishcouncil.org main page is 581.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 281.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 157.2 kB

  • Original 219.0 kB
  • After minification 206.9 kB
  • After compression 61.7 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 157.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 33.2 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. British Council images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 281.8 kB
  • After minification 279.8 kB
  • After compression 257.7 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

-73%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 47.5 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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. Britishcouncil.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (46%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of British Council. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.britishcouncil.org

www.britishcouncil.org

209 ms

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Accessibility Review

britishcouncil.org accessibility score

91

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 IDs are not unique

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

britishcouncil.org best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

britishcouncil.org SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Britishcouncil.org 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 Britishcouncil.org 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

britishcouncil.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of British Council. 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: