Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

britishcouncil.com.kw

British Council | الكويت

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

653 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

257 ms

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About Website

Welcome to britishcouncil.com.kw homepage info - get ready to check British Council best content for Kuwait right away, or after learning these important things about britishcouncil.com.kw

نحن نبني العلاقات، والتفاهم، والثقة بين الناس في المملكة المتحدة والبلدان الأخرى من خلال الفنون، والثقافة، والتعليم، واللغة الإنجليزية.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britishcouncil.com.kw page load time and found that the first response time was 653 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

britishcouncil.com.kw performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.britishcouncil.com.kw

653 ms

webtrends.min.js

431 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

js_3TykeRWpejhD4-J3vdlaNXdULg9xhOZhbsppK0o2bUs.js

7 ms

js_uE2Cmcm4eMBeJ7gZtdvYqm1CVG1BMSkJnC6M_sLddIY.js

224 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Britishcouncil.com.kw, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Statse.webtrendslive.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (653 ms) belongs to the original domain Britishcouncil.com.kw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 479.4 kB (57%)

Content Size

842.9 kB

After Optimization

363.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Britishcouncil.com.kw main page is 842.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 275.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 44.2 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 35.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 254.1 kB
  • After minification 243.3 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. British Council images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 201.3 kB

  • Original 266.6 kB
  • After minification 200.8 kB
  • After compression 65.3 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 201.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 232.1 kB

  • Original 275.7 kB
  • After minification 270.3 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Britishcouncil.com.kw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 232.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (39%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of British Council. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

britishcouncil.com.kw accessibility score

79

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Best Practices

britishcouncil.com.kw best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

britishcouncil.com.kw SEO score

90

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

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

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    AR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Britishcouncil.com.kw can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Arabic is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Britishcouncil.com.kw 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 British Council. 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: