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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

375 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ictlounge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 375 ms and then it took 1.3 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

ictlounge.com performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ictlounge.com

375 ms

mm_menu.js

95 ms

analytics.js

22 ms

iso2016-01-26T00:00:00

48 ms

counter.js

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Ictlounge.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Free.timeanddate.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (467 ms) belongs to the original domain Ictlounge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.3 kB (68%)

Content Size

150.2 kB

After Optimization

47.9 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ictlounge.com main page is 150.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 98.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 44.6 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 7.5 kB, which is 14% 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 44.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 57.7 kB

  • Original 98.0 kB
  • After minification 93.0 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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 57.7 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ICT Lounge. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

ictlounge.com

ictlounge.com

375 ms

mm_menu.js

mm_menu.js

95 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

22 ms

iso2016-01-26T00:00:00

iso2016-01-26T00:00:00

48 ms

counter.js

counter.js

39 ms

ictlounge.com

ictlounge.com

96 ms

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Maintained%20and%20Created%20by%201.gif

187 ms

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Year%207%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

279 ms

Year%208%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

Year%208%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

279 ms

IGCSE%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

IGCSE%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

280 ms

A-Level%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

A-Level%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

283 ms

IB%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

IB%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

281 ms

ICT-Fun-Mouse-Off.gif

ICT-Fun-Mouse-Off.gif

280 ms

Forum%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

Forum%20-%20Mouse%20Off.gif

371 ms

Chalk%20board2.gif

Chalk%20board2.gif

467 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

t.php

t.php

156 ms

ts.php

ts.php

16 ms

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Year%207%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

94 ms

Year%208%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

Year%208%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

95 ms

A-Level%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

A-Level%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

96 ms

IB%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

IB%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

96 ms

Homepage%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

Homepage%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

97 ms

IGCSE%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

IGCSE%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

98 ms

ICT-Fun-Mouse-On.gif

ICT-Fun-Mouse-On.gif

186 ms

Forum%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

Forum%20-%20Mouse%20On.gif

187 ms

Accessibility Review

ictlounge.com accessibility score

57

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

ictlounge.com best practices score

42

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ictlounge.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ictlounge.com 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 Ictlounge.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ICT Lounge. 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: