Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thestudentcentre.net

The Student Centre Barbados - The Student Centre - Study Abroad Experts Barbados (246) 256-5650

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

373 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestudentcentre.net page load time and found that the first response time was 143 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

thestudentcentre.net performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thestudentcentre.net

143 ms

www.thestudentcentre.net

390 ms

www.thestudentcentre.net

169 ms

js

61 ms

sites.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Thestudentcentre.net, 28% (17 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (520 ms) belongs to the original domain Thestudentcentre.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 431.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Thestudentcentre.net main page is 3.1 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. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 73.2 kB
  • After minification 71.7 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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 59.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 128.4 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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. The Student Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 231.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 808.5 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 231.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 111.9 kB
  • After minification 111.9 kB
  • After compression 100.0 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. Thestudentcentre.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.9 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (55%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Student Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thestudentcentre.net accessibility score

93

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

thestudentcentre.net 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thestudentcentre.net SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Thestudentcentre.net 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 Thestudentcentre.net 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 The Student Centre. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: