Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

britishcouncil.hk

英國文化協會 | 香港

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

981 ms

Page Rendered

160 ms

britishcouncil.hk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britishcouncil.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

britishcouncil.hk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.britishcouncil.hk

253 ms

otSDKStub.js

49 ms

css__iYN0PnhGRITeIiRpmnTmEz4xX4gTF6dPgdte0drEfaY__XaxEcspfL8jYi5T4sjBdMIAiRr5QyTnazlO2d_X7dqU__MlggXC-M4jbeZYDZRQaQiMvRFpaB_pwAGbteKmYshkU.css

133 ms

bc-theme.css

38 ms

bc-theme-zh-hant.css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Britishcouncil.hk, 13% (4 requests) were made to Sui.britishcouncil.org and 9% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (427 ms) belongs to the original domain Britishcouncil.hk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.4 kB (46%)

Content Size

483.7 kB

After Optimization

263.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Britishcouncil.hk main page is 483.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 191.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 137.3 kB

  • Original 191.6 kB
  • After minification 179.6 kB
  • After compression 54.4 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 137.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.6 kB
  • After minification 59.6 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. Britishcouncil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 51.2 kB

  • Original 188.5 kB
  • After minification 183.9 kB
  • After compression 137.3 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 51.2 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 31.9 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 43.9 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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.hk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (45%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Britishcouncil. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

britishcouncil.hk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

britishcouncil.hk 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.hk SEO score

91

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

    JA

  • Language Claimed

    ZH

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Britishcouncil.hk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Japanese is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Chinese language. Our system also found out that Britishcouncil.hk 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 Britishcouncil. 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: