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afs.org

AFS Intercultural Programs

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

612 ms

Page Rendered

442 ms

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About Website

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AFS study abroad, education and volunteer programs empower people with essential intercultural knowledge, skills and understanding.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afs.org page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

afs.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

afs.org

23 ms

www.afs.org

82 ms

css

79 ms

css

91 ms

normalize.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Afs.org, 20% (12 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com and 12% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (292 ms) belongs to the original domain Afs.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 223.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Afs.org main page is 2.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 1.1 kB, which is 12% 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 7.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. AFS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 137.6 kB

  • Original 249.0 kB
  • After minification 248.7 kB
  • After compression 111.4 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 137.6 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 74.0 kB

  • Original 90.7 kB
  • After minification 80.3 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Afs.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 74.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (32%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AFS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

afs.org SEO score

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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 Afs.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 Afs.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 AFS. 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: