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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

higherscore.ca

Higher Score® - Canada's Exam Experts | Free Advice, Great Classes, Professional Teachers

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

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About Website

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Higher Score classes help students increase their exam score for TOEFL, IELTS and TOEIC at three schools in Canada: Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Higherscore.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 1.8 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

higherscore.ca performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

higherscore.ca

295 ms

style.css

225 ms

g=feedback2

162 ms

ga.js

12 ms

page.png

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Higherscore.ca, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Max.jotfor.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Higherscore.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

304.8 kB

After Optimization

180.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Higherscore.ca main page is 304.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 164.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.3 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 6.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 122.2 kB
  • After minification 108.5 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. Obviously, Higher Score needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 97.1 kB

  • Original 164.5 kB
  • After minification 164.5 kB
  • After compression 67.4 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 97.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 6.2 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Higherscore.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Higher Score. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

higherscore.ca

higherscore.ca

295 ms

style.css

style.css

225 ms

g=feedback2

g=feedback2

162 ms

ga.js

ga.js

12 ms

page.png

page.png

75 ms

header.png

header.png

215 ms

title_welcome.png

title_welcome.png

143 ms

side_active_large.png

side_active_large.png

139 ms

divider.png

divider.png

144 ms

jp.png

jp.png

142 ms

people_group_1.png

people_group_1.png

1116 ms

button_landing_ielts_study.png

button_landing_ielts_study.png

408 ms

button_landing_toefl_study.png

button_landing_toefl_study.png

348 ms

button_landing_toeic_study.png

button_landing_toeic_study.png

343 ms

logo_lsc_small_yellow.png

logo_lsc_small_yellow.png

352 ms

footer.png

footer.png

351 ms

logo_lsc_small.png

logo_lsc_small.png

549 ms

logo_toeic_grey.png

logo_toeic_grey.png

557 ms

logo_toefl_grey.png

logo_toefl_grey.png

623 ms

logo_ielts_grey.png

logo_ielts_grey.png

564 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

tracker.js

tracker.js

24 ms

Accessibility Review

higherscore.ca accessibility score

72

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

higherscore.ca best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

higherscore.ca SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Higherscore.ca 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 Higherscore.ca main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

higherscore.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Higher Score. 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: