Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

britishcouncil.kz

British Council | Kazakhstan

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

250 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

906 ms

britishcouncil.kz screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britishcouncil.kz page load time and found that the first response time was 250 ms and then it took 2.3 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

britishcouncil.kz performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

britishcouncil.kz

250 ms

www.britishcouncil.kz

29 ms

webtrends.min.js

601 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

js_3TykeRWpejhD4-J3vdlaNXdULg9xhOZhbsppK0o2bUs.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Britishcouncil.kz, 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 (650 ms) belongs to the original domain Britishcouncil.kz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 442.6 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Britishcouncil.kz main page is 2.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 180 B

  • Original 419 B
  • After minification 416 B
  • After compression 239 B

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 180 B or 43% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB

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

-63%

Potential reduce by 169.0 kB

  • Original 267.9 kB
  • After minification 202.2 kB
  • After compression 98.9 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 169.0 kB or 63% 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.kz 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 (42%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 36 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.kz accessibility score

74

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Best Practices

britishcouncil.kz 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.kz 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

    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 Britishcouncil.kz 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 Britishcouncil.kz 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

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: