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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org

Cambridge English Results Service for Candidates

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

383 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

115 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Candidates.cambridgeenglish.org page load time and found that the first response time was 383 ms and then it took 1.9 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

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,700 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.158

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org

383 ms

Login.aspx

193 ms

ie5.css

165 ms

switchcontent.js

251 ms

NewMainLogo.png

628 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Candidates.cambridgeenglish.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (628 ms) belongs to the original domain Candidates.cambridgeenglish.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.6 kB (27%)

Content Size

82.4 kB

After Optimization

59.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Candidates.cambridgeenglish.org main page is 82.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 57.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 9.3 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.3 kB, which is 25% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 55.1 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. Candidates Cambridge English images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 737 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 548 B
  • After compression 264 B

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 737 B or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Candidates.cambridgeenglish.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (55%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Candidates Cambridge English. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org

383 ms

Login.aspx

Login.aspx

193 ms

ie5.css

ie5.css

165 ms

switchcontent.js

switchcontent.js

251 ms

NewMainLogo.png

NewMainLogo.png

628 ms

Menu.gif

Menu.gif

87 ms

Help.gif

Help.gif

87 ms

Button.gif

Button.gif

174 ms

Number.gif

Number.gif

179 ms

Help2.gif

Help2.gif

253 ms

Key.gif

Key.gif

254 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

254 ms

CambridgeAssessment.gif

CambridgeAssessment.gif

257 ms

Accessibility Review

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Candidates.cambridgeenglish.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Candidates.cambridgeenglish.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

candidates.cambridgeenglish.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Candidates Cambridge English. 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: