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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

pastpapers.org

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

796 ms

Page Rendered

387 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pastpapers.org page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pastpapers.org performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,580 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pastpapers.org

178 ms

style.css

4 ms

jquery.min.js

4 ms

script.js

18 ms

brand

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Pastpapers.org, 14% (8 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 13% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (291 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 329.9 kB (49%)

Content Size

672.7 kB

After Optimization

342.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pastpapers.org main page is 672.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 567.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 47.5 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. 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 37.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 601 B

  • Original 42.8 kB
  • After minification 42.2 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. Past Papers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 280.1 kB

  • Original 567.0 kB
  • After minification 566.4 kB
  • After compression 286.9 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 280.1 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 14.1 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Pastpapers.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (66%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Past Papers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pastpapers.org

pastpapers.org

178 ms

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style.css

4 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

4 ms

script.js

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18 ms

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24 ms

adsbygoogle.js

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21 ms

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22 ms

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7 ms

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6 ms

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40 ms

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39 ms

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41 ms

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40 ms

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40 ms

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40 ms

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41 ms

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101 ms

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21 ms

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25 ms

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37 ms

collect

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68 ms

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20 ms

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22 ms

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18 ms

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18 ms

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142 ms

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110 ms

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139 ms

show_ads_impl.js

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72 ms

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67 ms

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82 ms

ping

ping

78 ms

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44 ms

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43 ms

footer.png

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42 ms

like.php

like.php

291 ms

ads

ads

229 ms

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38 ms

ads

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261 ms

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192 ms

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226 ms

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38 ms

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68 ms

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70 ms

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6 ms

Accessibility Review

pastpapers.org accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

pastpapers.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

pastpapers.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Pastpapers.org 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 Pastpapers.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

pastpapers.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Past Papers. 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: