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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

gcse.com

GCSE.com: revising revision

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

324 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

105 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing GCSE content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gcse.com

Award-winning tutorials, tips and advice on GCSE English, French, German, ICT, maths and physics coursework and exams for students, parents and teachers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 324 ms and then it took 1.5 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

gcse.com performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gcse.com

324 ms

newmenu.css

95 ms

brand

15 ms

brand

63 ms

ajs.php

225 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Gcse.com, 24% (5 requests) were made to Ecx.images-amazon.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Google.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (324 ms) belongs to the original domain Gcse.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.7 kB (45%)

Content Size

51.0 kB

After Optimization

28.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gcse.com main page is 51.0 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 27.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 8.6 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 5.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 21.9 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. Obviously, GCSE needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.7 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 9.1 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 190 B
  • After minification 161 B
  • After compression 129 B

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. Gcse.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61 B or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (53%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GCSE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gcse.com

gcse.com

324 ms

newmenu.css

newmenu.css

95 ms

brand

brand

15 ms

brand

brand

63 ms

ajs.php

ajs.php

225 ms

aarrow.gif

aarrow.gif

95 ms

arrow2.gif

arrow2.gif

187 ms

newlogo.png

newlogo.png

280 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

191 ms

ads.js

ads.js

165 ms

lg.php

lg.php

22 ms

match.aspx

match.aspx

18 ms

ads-common.js

ads-common.js

172 ms

cm

cm

184 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

35 ms

uk_logo_80x60_2.gif

uk_logo_80x60_2.gif

44 ms

175 ms

416PMskktML._SL50_.jpg

416PMskktML._SL50_.jpg

66 ms

41l+EAfx3CL._SL50_.jpg

41l+EAfx3CL._SL50_.jpg

38 ms

transparent-pixel.gif

transparent-pixel.gif

40 ms

416PMskktML._OU02_SL50_PI30-percent,BottomRight,0,0_CR0,0,35,50_.jpg

416PMskktML._OU02_SL50_PI30-percent,BottomRight,0,0_CR0,0,35,50_.jpg

7 ms

Accessibility Review

gcse.com accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

gcse.com best practices score

50

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gcse.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gcse.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 Gcse.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

gcse.com

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