Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

shiksha.com

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Page Load Speed

29.3 sec in total

First Response

864 ms

Resources Loaded

19 sec

Page Rendered

9.5 sec

shiksha.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shiksha.com page load time and found that the first response time was 864 ms and then it took 28.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shiksha.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shiksha.com

864 ms

www.shiksha.com

1423 ms

shiksha-com.min.df1a9a.css

580 ms

shikshaHomepage.min.8e379d.css

981 ms

shikshaHeader.20c8c2.js

2413 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Shiksha.com, 22% (8 requests) were made to Images.shiksha.ws and 19% (7 requests) were made to Js.shiksha.ws. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6 sec) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (59%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Shiksha.com main page is 3.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 173.1 kB

  • Original 208.2 kB
  • After minification 206.0 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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 173.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 732.9 kB
  • After minification 715.6 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. Shiksha images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 361.8 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 1.1 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 543.3 kB

  • Original 658.8 kB
  • After minification 615.5 kB
  • After compression 115.5 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. Shiksha.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 543.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (66%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shiksha. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shiksha.com 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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

shiksha.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

shiksha.com SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Shiksha.com 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 Shiksha.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

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