Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

transitionsabroad.com

TransitionsAbroad.com | Meaningful Travel, Living, Work, Study Abroad

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

666 ms

Page Rendered

443 ms

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About Website

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TransitionsAbroad.com is the original source for meaningful travel articles, programs, resources and ideas — established in 1977.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Transitionsabroad.com page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 1.1 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

transitionsabroad.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

transitionsabroad.com

55 ms

www.transitionsabroad.com

130 ms

articles.css

63 ms

tabview.css

18 ms

tabs.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Transitionsabroad.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Yui.yahooapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to S.flipboard.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (324 ms) relates to the external source Flipboard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

861.6 kB

After Optimization

584.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Transitionsabroad.com main page is 861.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 457.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 71.3 kB

  • Original 88.2 kB
  • After minification 64.1 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.0 kB, which is 27% 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 71.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 457.4 kB
  • After minification 450.7 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. Transitions Abroad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 187.3 kB

  • Original 302.1 kB
  • After minification 301.9 kB
  • After compression 114.8 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 187.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Transitionsabroad.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (27%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Transitions Abroad. 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

transitionsabroad.com accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

transitionsabroad.com best practices score

67

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

transitionsabroad.com SEO score

79

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 Transitionsabroad.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 Transitionsabroad.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 Transitions Abroad. 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: