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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 30 October 202645 issues · 93 checks

This review found 45 issues worth fixing on saschina.org, 16 of them high impact, across 93 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.4 s1.9 sMay 9Oct 242.8 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.1 s
May 16, 20262.4 s
May 23, 20262.5 s
May 30, 20262.7 s
Jun 6, 20262.9 s
Jun 13, 20262.8 s
Jun 20, 20263.0 s
Jun 27, 20262.9 s
Jul 4, 20262.9 s
Jul 11, 20263.0 s
Jul 18, 20263.0 s
Jul 25, 20263.1 s
Aug 1, 20263.2 s
Aug 8, 20263.1 s
Aug 15, 20262.9 s
Aug 22, 20262.7 s
Aug 29, 20262.6 s
Sep 5, 20262.8 s
Sep 12, 20262.8 s
Sep 19, 20262.9 s
Sep 26, 20263.0 s
Oct 3, 20262.9 s
Oct 10, 20262.9 s
Oct 17, 20262.9 s
Oct 24, 20262.8 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
150 ms101 msMay 9Oct 24144 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026138 ms
May 16, 2026121 ms
May 23, 2026120 ms
May 30, 2026123 ms
Jun 6, 2026123 ms
Jun 13, 2026123 ms
Jun 20, 2026125 ms
Jun 27, 2026125 ms
Jul 4, 2026118 ms
Jul 11, 2026116 ms
Jul 18, 2026112 ms
Jul 25, 2026107 ms
Aug 1, 2026112 ms
Aug 8, 2026112 ms
Aug 15, 2026109 ms
Aug 22, 2026110 ms
Aug 29, 2026111 ms
Sep 5, 2026120 ms
Sep 12, 2026123 ms
Sep 19, 2026129 ms
Sep 26, 2026132 ms
Oct 3, 2026121 ms
Oct 10, 2026129 ms
Oct 17, 2026142 ms
Oct 24, 2026144 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of saschina.org (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. saschina.org at 1.4 s1.4 s
  2. saschina.org at 2.8 s2.8 s
  3. saschina.org at 4.1 s4.1 s
  4. saschina.org at 5.5 s5.5 s
  5. saschina.org at 6.9 s6.9 s
  6. saschina.org at 8.3 s8.3 s
  7. saschina.org at 9.6 s9.6 s
  8. saschina.org at 11.0 s11.0 s

Speed

13 to fix33
  • Improve image delivery

    1.4 s · 1.7 MB

    16 images could be 1.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.1 s

    8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.1 s.

  • Document request latency

    1.4 s · 401 KiB

    The HTML itself could arrive about 1.4 s sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • Reduce initial server response time

    1.4 s

    Reduce initial server response time. Google estimates savings of 1.4 s on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 33

    33/100

    Your mobile performance score is 33. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Cloudflare CDN and others), adding 5.0 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 663 ms

    663 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 663 ms of main-thread work and 691 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 391 KiB

    About 391 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Fonts adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    Google Fonts costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 3.9 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • 8 long tasks on the main thread

    8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 298 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Main-thread work: 2.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 1,609 HTML elements

    The page has 1,609 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Server response: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Your server takes 1.5 s to send the HTML. Google recommends under 600 ms; everything else waits for it.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    213 KiB

    3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (213 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 39 KiB

    About 39 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    13 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Core Web Vitals

13 to fix33
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.48

    0.48

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.48 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 3.1 s

    3.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 3.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors wait 1.9 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 32.2 s

    32.2 s

    Your largest element takes 32.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Banner Image 1”.

  • Time to Interactive: 32.7 s

    32.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 32.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 12.5 s

    12.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 12.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.7 s

    4.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 717 ms

    717 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 717 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    Real visitors wait 3.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 26% slower for real visitors

    +26%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.153

    0.153

    The layout shifts by 0.153 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • 15 images without width and height

    15 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 138 ms to 144 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 136 ms

    136 ms

    Real visitors wait 136 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

3 to fix53
  • Page weight: 8.3 MB in 90 requests

    8.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 8.3 MB in 90 requests on a phone: fonts 4.0 MB (5), images 2.5 MB (43) and scripts 1.1 MB (19). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 16 images below the first screen load straight away

    16 images further down the page (2.0 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 10 images in older formats

    10 images (1.8 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • About 2.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.36 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.36 g of CO₂e: 283.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 9295
  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (8 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 2 links without text

    2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 38 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 9286
  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is long (306 characters)

    Your meta description is 306 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 2 links with vague text

    2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 77 internal links, 23 external

    The homepage links to 77 pages on saschina.org and 23 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Learn Dream Be Yourself Find Yourself at SAS.”.

  • Title: 51 characters

    Your title is a healthy 51 characters: “Shanghai American School | Top International School”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.saschina.org/.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.saschina.org/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://www.saschina.org/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

2 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,116 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 13 pages without a meta description

    https://www.saschina.org/contact, https://www.saschina.org/plan-visit/book-tour, https://www.saschina.org/alumni, https://www.saschina.org/campus-access, https://www.saschina.org/admissions and https://www.saschina.org/about-sas/work-sas and 7 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 7 pages slow to respond

    https://www.saschina.org/campus-access, https://www.saschina.org/admissions, https://www.saschina.org/about-sas, https://www.saschina.org/about-sas/our-people, https://www.saschina.org/about-sas/our-history and https://www.saschina.org/about-sas/our-campuses and 1 other took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 41 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 8891
  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • 4 distorted images

    4 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    27 of 28 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix86
  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 1,046 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,046 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn more” and “APPLY NOW”.

  • 6 calls to action

    The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “APPLY”, “Learn More” and “Apply”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 7 cookies set on arrival

    7

    Opening the homepage sets 7 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 11 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at saschina.org, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
Drupal
Framework
Tailwind CSS
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
CloudFront

Company

Founded
1912

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