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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

ags.edu

American Graduate School (AGS) in Paris, France - International Relations and Business Graduate Programs

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

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About Website

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Official website of the American Graduate School in Paris, France offering US higher education in International Relations and Business Administration.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ags.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ags.edu performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ags.edu

162 ms

ags.edu

348 ms

www.ags.edu

232 ms

www.ags.edu

618 ms

mootools.js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Ags.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Jqueryjs.googlecode.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (618 ms) belongs to the original domain Ags.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ags.edu main page is 3.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 31.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 205.1 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. AGS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 58.0 kB
  • After minification 57.1 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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 11.3 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 19.9 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. Ags.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (31%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AGS. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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162 ms

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348 ms

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232 ms

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618 ms

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Accessibility Review

ags.edu accessibility score

72

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ags.edu best practices score

50

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ags.edu SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ags.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ags.edu 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

ags.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of AGS. 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: