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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

aifs.com

American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS)

Page Load Speed

769 ms in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

577 ms

Page Rendered

127 ms

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About Website

Visit aifs.com now to see the best up-to-date AIFS content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about aifs.com

AIFS is a provider of au pairs in America, study abroad, foreign student exchange, gifted education, student travel insurance and high school study abroad programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aifs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 704 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aifs.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aifs.com

65 ms

hpStyleSheet.css

12 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

5 ms

jquery-feedFullPostDisplay.js

37 ms

widgetPrograms.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Aifs.com, 5% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Aifsexperience.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (421 ms) relates to the external source Aifsexperience.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

147.3 kB

After Optimization

121.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aifs.com main page is 147.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 115.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 14.8 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 10.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 115.4 kB
  • After minification 113.2 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. AIFS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 9.3 kB
  • After minification 5.4 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 7.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Aifs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AIFS. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

aifs.com

aifs.com

65 ms

hpStyleSheet.css

hpStyleSheet.css

12 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

5 ms

jquery-feedFullPostDisplay.js

jquery-feedFullPostDisplay.js

37 ms

widgetPrograms.js

widgetPrograms.js

36 ms

body2.png

body2.png

23 ms

logo.png

logo.png

24 ms

banner_heart.jpg

banner_heart.jpg

31 ms

widgetPrograms-sprite.png

widgetPrograms-sprite.png

23 ms

college.jpg

college.jpg

24 ms

aupair.jpg

aupair.jpg

27 ms

aya.jpg

aya.jpg

26 ms

sig.jpg

sig.jpg

31 ms

acis.jpg

acis.jpg

25 ms

camp.jpg

camp.jpg

26 ms

cisi.jpg

cisi.jpg

32 ms

partnership.jpg

partnership.jpg

33 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

41 ms

421 ms

Accessibility Review

aifs.com accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

aifs.com 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

aifs.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aifs.com 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 Aifs.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

aifs.com

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