Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

chinascholarships.co

China Scholarships - The 2024 Guide for International Students

Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

147 ms

Resources Loaded

10.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

chinascholarships.co screenshot

About Website

Visit chinascholarships.co now to see the best up-to-date China Scholarships content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chinascholarships.co

Learn more about all the scholarships in China for international students. Info on how to apply, deadlines, and tips for 2024 intake.

Visit chinascholarships.co

Key Findings

We analyzed Chinascholarships.co page load time and found that the first response time was 147 ms and then it took 12.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chinascholarships.co performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chinascholarships.co

147 ms

scholarships.china-admissions.com

200 ms

4839 ms

style.min.css

752 ms

blocks.style.build.css

579 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Chinascholarships.co, 41% (75 requests) were made to China-admissions.com and 29% (52 requests) were made to Secure.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) relates to the external source China-admissions.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 636.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Chinascholarships.co main page is 4.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 581.3 kB

  • Original 651.9 kB
  • After minification 619.5 kB
  • After compression 70.6 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 581.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. China Scholarships images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-10%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 254.5 kB
  • After minification 234.5 kB
  • After compression 229.5 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. Chinascholarships.co has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (46%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

94

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of China Scholarships. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

chinascholarships.co accessibility score

79

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

chinascholarships.co best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chinascholarships.co SEO score

80

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 Chinascholarships.co 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 Chinascholarships.co 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 data is detected on the main page of China Scholarships. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: