Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

cibt.com

Travel Visa and Passport Services for International Travel | Online Visa Application & Visa Requirements | CIBT

Page Load Speed

25 sec in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

14.1 sec

Page Rendered

10.7 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cibt.com page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 24.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cibt.com performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cibt.com

144 ms

cibtvisas.com

1293 ms

gtm.js

1496 ms

all.min.css

218 ms

css

2295 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cibt.com, 78% (25 requests) were made to Cibtvisas.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Ajax.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 369.3 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Cibt.com main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 158.0 kB

  • Original 177.1 kB
  • After minification 125.9 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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 51.2 kB, which is 29% 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 158.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. CIBT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 49 B

  • Original 51.0 kB
  • After minification 51.0 kB
  • After compression 51.0 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.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 206.3 kB

  • Original 252.9 kB
  • After minification 252.7 kB
  • After compression 46.6 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. Cibt.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 206.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (12%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CIBT. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cibt.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

cibt.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

SEO Factors

cibt.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cibt.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 Cibt.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 description is not detected on the main page of CIBT. 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: