Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

study-in-europe.org

Study in Europe | European Education Area

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

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About Website

Visit study-in-europe.org now to see the best up-to-date Study In Europe content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about study-in-europe.org

Study in Europe provides up to date information on study opportunities in over 30 European countries, their universities, and what it takes to live and study in them.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Study-in-europe.org page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

study-in-europe.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,040 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

study-in-europe.org

241 ms

425 ms

ec.css

185 ms

ec-components.css

275 ms

ec.js

289 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Study-in-europe.org, 81% (51 requests) were made to Ec.europa.eu and 5% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (906 ms) relates to the external source Webgate.ec.europa.eu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 827.0 kB (71%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

341.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Study-in-europe.org main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 570.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 88.4 kB

  • Original 97.6 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 51.1 kB, which is 52% 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 88.4 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 87.3 kB
  • After minification 76.4 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, Study In Europe needs image optimization as it can save up to 10.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 381.7 kB

  • Original 570.3 kB
  • After minification 551.9 kB
  • After compression 188.6 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 381.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 346.0 kB

  • Original 413.7 kB
  • After minification 388.6 kB
  • After compression 67.7 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. Study-in-europe.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 346.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (68%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Study In Europe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

study-in-europe.org accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

study-in-europe.org best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

study-in-europe.org SEO score

79

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

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 Study-in-europe.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 Study-in-europe.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 Study In Europe. 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: