Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

goenglish.me

Voice of America - Learn American English with VOA Learning English

Page Load Speed

31.2 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

13.9 sec

Page Rendered

16.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goenglish.me page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 30 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goenglish.me performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

learningenglish.voanews.com

1187 ms

VOA-en-US-LEARN.css

243 ms

infographics.b

1353 ms

loader.b

1353 ms

conf.js

1472 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Goenglish.me, 14% (2 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Gdb.voanews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.8 sec) relates to the external source Gdb.voanews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 828.8 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

877.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Goenglish.me main page is 1.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 724.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 52.6 kB

  • Original 64.6 kB
  • After minification 64.4 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 52.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 59.2 kB

  • Original 624.7 kB
  • After minification 565.6 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. Go English images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 471.0 kB

  • Original 724.8 kB
  • After minification 724.0 kB
  • After compression 253.9 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 471.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 246.1 kB

  • Original 292.0 kB
  • After minification 291.2 kB
  • After compression 45.9 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. Goenglish.me needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 246.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (50%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go English. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

goenglish.me accessibility score

83

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

goenglish.me 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

goenglish.me SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Goenglish.me 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 Goenglish.me 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 Go English. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: