Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

globalinsights.org

Global Insights Youth Exchange | Foreign Exchange Student Program

Page Load Speed

602 ms in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

350 ms

Page Rendered

173 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globalinsights.org page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 523 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

globalinsights.org performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

globalinsights.org

79 ms

style.css

26 ms

sidebars.css

66 ms

default.css

67 ms

home.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Globalinsights.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (112 ms) belongs to the original domain Globalinsights.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

298.5 kB

After Optimization

278.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Globalinsights.org main page is 298.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 274.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 1.5 kB, which is 11% 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 9.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 274.2 kB
  • After minification 266.6 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. Global Insights images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 10.8 kB
  • After minification 10.8 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Globalinsights.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (25%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Global Insights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

globalinsights.org accessibility score

63

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

globalinsights.org best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

globalinsights.org SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Globalinsights.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 Globalinsights.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

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