Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ef.com

EF Education First: Choose Location

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

388 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ef.com page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ef.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,340 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ef.com

35 ms

www.ef.edu

246 ms

gtm.js

100 ms

00.svg

45 ms

00.svg

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ef.com, 56% (25 requests) were made to A.storyblok.com and 33% (15 requests) were made to Ef.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source A.storyblok.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 367.1 kB (46%)

Content Size

795.9 kB

After Optimization

428.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Ef.com main page is 795.9 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 428.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 366.6 kB

  • Original 428.5 kB
  • After minification 428.2 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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 366.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 407 B

  • Original 367.4 kB
  • After minification 367.4 kB
  • After compression 367.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ef.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ef.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ef.com SEO score

86

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 Ef.com 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 Ef.com 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 EF. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: