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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

blog.tesol.org

Blog | TESOL | International Association

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

814 ms

blog.tesol.org screenshot

About Website

Visit blog.tesol.org now to see the best up-to-date Blog TESOL content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blog.tesol.org

The blog provides readers with news, information, and peer-to-peer guidance related to effective classroom practices in the field of English language education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.tesol.org page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.tesol.org performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.224

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog

171 ms

ados.js

40 ms

sitebuilder-ltr-css-bundle.css.v1

39 ms

sitebuilder-css-bundle.css.v1

68 ms

c0d483b5-692b-4773-8979-4e53f7e17caf.css

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.tesol.org, 6% (3 requests) were made to E-4466.adzerk.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (362 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (65%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.tesol.org main page is 4.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 913.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 980.8 kB
  • After compression 98.8 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 913.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 132.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 887.0 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, Blog TESOL needs image optimization as it can save up to 132.3 kB or 13% 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 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 540.1 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 1.1 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 871.1 kB

  • Original 994.3 kB
  • After minification 917.8 kB
  • After compression 123.3 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. Blog.tesol.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 871.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (80%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog TESOL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog

blog

171 ms

ados.js

ados.js

40 ms

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sitebuilder-ltr-css-bundle.css.v1

39 ms

sitebuilder-css-bundle.css.v1

sitebuilder-css-bundle.css.v1

68 ms

c0d483b5-692b-4773-8979-4e53f7e17caf.css

c0d483b5-692b-4773-8979-4e53f7e17caf.css

125 ms

calendar.css

calendar.css

88 ms

ace-main.css

ace-main.css

89 ms

calendar-apps.css

calendar-apps.css

83 ms

main-theme.css

main-theme.css

90 ms

api.js

api.js

88 ms

js

js

92 ms

sitebuilder-js-bundle.js.v1

sitebuilder-js-bundle.js.v1

74 ms

global.js

global.js

77 ms

calendar.js

calendar.js

124 ms

upcomingEvents.js

upcomingEvents.js

81 ms

url-current-page-cookie.js

url-current-page-cookie.js

81 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

107 ms

ados

ados

82 ms

sitebuilder-css-large-bundle.css.v1

sitebuilder-css-large-bundle.css.v1

48 ms

css

css

31 ms

sitebuilder-css-small-bundle.css.v1

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9 ms

sitebuilder-css-prnt-bundle.css.v1

sitebuilder-css-prnt-bundle.css.v1

339 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

362 ms

tesol_horz_notag_rgb.png

tesol_horz_notag_rgb.png

187 ms

top-banner-size-1.png

top-banner-size-1.png

188 ms

tesol_horz_notag_white.png

tesol_horz_notag_white.png

186 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

185 ms

instagram-icon.png

instagram-icon.png

184 ms

twitter-icon.png

twitter-icon.png

185 ms

linkedin-icon.png

linkedin-icon.png

193 ms

icon_awesome-youtube.png

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192 ms

recaptcha__en.js

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189 ms

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150 ms

i.gif

i.gif

60 ms

ionicons.woff

ionicons.woff

54 ms

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i.gif

54 ms

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141 ms

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sitebuilder-ltr-css-bundle.css.v1

54 ms

sitebuilder-css-bundle.css.v1

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63 ms

sitebuilder-css-small-bundle.css.v1

sitebuilder-css-small-bundle.css.v1

52 ms

sitebuilder-css-large-bundle.css.v1

sitebuilder-css-large-bundle.css.v1

57 ms

c0d483b5-692b-4773-8979-4e53f7e17caf.css

c0d483b5-692b-4773-8979-4e53f7e17caf.css

136 ms

sitebuilder-css-prnt-bundle.css.v1

sitebuilder-css-prnt-bundle.css.v1

69 ms

calendar.css

calendar.css

71 ms

ace-main.css

ace-main.css

71 ms

calendar-apps.css

calendar-apps.css

72 ms

main-theme.css

main-theme.css

131 ms

css

css

51 ms

font

font

81 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.tesol.org accessibility score

88

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.

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

blog.tesol.org best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blog.tesol.org SEO score

87

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Blog.tesol.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 Blog.tesol.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

blog.tesol.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Blog TESOL. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: