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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

dbs-students.com

DBS Students Website

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

327 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dbs-students.com page load time and found that the first response time was 327 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dbs-students.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dbs-students.com

327 ms

menu.css

97 ms

Default.css

187 ms

defaultpage.css

186 ms

flashobject.js

191 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Dbs-students.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) belongs to the original domain Dbs-students.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 351.7 kB (73%)

Content Size

484.6 kB

After Optimization

133.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dbs-students.com main page is 484.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 387.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.2 kB, which is 16% 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 9.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 470 B

  • Original 72.8 kB
  • After minification 72.3 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. DBS Students images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 332.5 kB

  • Original 387.4 kB
  • After minification 258.7 kB
  • After compression 54.9 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 332.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Dbs-students.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (35%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DBS Students. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dbs-students.com

dbs-students.com

327 ms

menu.css

menu.css

97 ms

Default.css

Default.css

187 ms

defaultpage.css

defaultpage.css

186 ms

flashobject.js

flashobject.js

191 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

193 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

189 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

460 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

362 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

275 ms

rss.js

rss.js

280 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

20 ms

online_payments.jpg

online_payments.jpg

185 ms

kaplan_logo.gif

kaplan_logo.gif

97 ms

menu.aspx

menu.aspx

92 ms

email.png

email.png

94 ms

Library.png

Library.png

96 ms

Student.png

Student.png

95 ms

careers1.png

careers1.png

99 ms

timetables.png

timetables.png

99 ms

Registrar.png

Registrar.png

178 ms

exams.png

exams.png

187 ms

cad.png

cad.png

189 ms

Reception.png

Reception.png

191 ms

International.png

International.png

193 ms

Professional.png

Professional.png

192 ms

Computer.png

Computer.png

270 ms

moodle.png

moodle.png

279 ms

Further.png

Further.png

284 ms

google.aspx

google.aspx

281 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

newlib.css

newlib.css

200 ms

flashobject.js

flashobject.js

205 ms

newlib.css

newlib.css

89 ms

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

16 ms

Accessibility Review

dbs-students.com accessibility score

73

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

dbs-students.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

dbs-students.com SEO score

77

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

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

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 Dbs-students.com 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 Dbs-students.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

dbs-students.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of DBS Students. 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: