Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gcedclearinghouse.org

Global Citizenship Education (GCED) Clearinghouse | UNESCO & APCEIU

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

274 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcedclearinghouse.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gcedclearinghouse.org performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gcedclearinghouse.org

1045 ms

system.base.css

498 ms

system.menus.css

507 ms

system.messages.css

511 ms

system.theme.css

511 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Gcedclearinghouse.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gcedclearinghouse.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 336.5 kB (53%)

Content Size

629.2 kB

After Optimization

292.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Gcedclearinghouse.org main page is 629.2 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. Javascripts take 244.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 8.7 kB, which is 13% 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 53.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 186.1 kB
  • After minification 170.1 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. GCED Clearinghouse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 160.5 kB

  • Original 244.4 kB
  • After minification 231.3 kB
  • After compression 83.9 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 160.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 106.9 kB

  • Original 132.4 kB
  • After minification 115.9 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Gcedclearinghouse.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (50%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GCED Clearinghouse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gcedclearinghouse.org accessibility score

75

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gcedclearinghouse.org best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gcedclearinghouse.org SEO score

86

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    KO

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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