Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

nse.org

National Student Exchange - OFFICIAL SITE

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

771 ms

Page Rendered

167 ms

nse.org screenshot

About Website

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Providing national student exchange opportunities for students to study away on exchange in the United States, Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nse.org page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 938 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nse.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nse.org

120 ms

style.css

120 ms

mobile-detect.min.js

40 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

102 ms

jquery.min.js

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Nse.org, 3% (1 request) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (511 ms) belongs to the original domain Nse.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.3 kB (31%)

Content Size

194.6 kB

After Optimization

134.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Nse.org main page is 194.6 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. Images take 100.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. 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 9.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 100.1 kB
  • After minification 86.5 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, Nse needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.5 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 49.8 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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 10.8 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Nse.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (43%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nse.org accessibility score

67

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

nse.org best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nse.org SEO score

87

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nse.org 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 Nse.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 Nse. 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: