Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

apply.eu

EU Blue Card Network

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apply.eu page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apply.eu performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apply.eu

293 ms

apply.eu

463 ms

1global.css

175 ms

1jquery.mmenu.css

263 ms

js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Apply.eu, 7% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (525 ms) belongs to the original domain Apply.eu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.7 kB (47%)

Content Size

329.4 kB

After Optimization

174.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Apply.eu main page is 329.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 125.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 10.8 kB, which is 43% 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 20.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 125.0 kB
  • After minification 123.6 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. Apply images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 76.0 kB

  • Original 113.6 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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 76.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 65.5 kB
  • After minification 60.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Apply.eu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (36%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apply. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apply.eu accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

apply.eu best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

apply.eu SEO score

80

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Apply.eu 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 Apply.eu 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 Apply. 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: