tas.edu website review

54 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (41.3 MB).

About 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 9.4 s faster on a phone.

17 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 9.4 s.

About 94 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 49 (desktop: 32). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 5.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, Vimeo and Facebook and others), adding 52.7 MB and 1.0 s of main-thread time.

website-files.com costs a phone 279 ms of main-thread work and 47.2 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.

Vimeo costs a phone 253 ms of main-thread work and 4.5 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 135 ms of main-thread work and 441 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.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 198 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 30 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 100 ms faster on a phone.

1 image could be 41 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

6 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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

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

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.

The first text or image appears after 17.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 28.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “By clicking "Accept", you agree to the storing of cookies o…”.

Visually, the page fills in at 17.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 29.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Real visitors wait 3.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 1.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 282 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 103 ms to 101 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 53.3 MB in 155 requests on a phone: media 40.7 MB (4), images 5.8 MB (23) and other files 2.9 MB (40). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image (66 KiB) is 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 15.12 g of CO₂e: 1814.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Links must have discernible text: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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: 21 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Structured data found (EducationalOrganization) but with 1 problem, for example “EducationalOrganization: url is not an absolute URL ("/")”.

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

1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

The homepage links to 96 pages on tas.edu and 17 external pages.

https://tas.edu/apply-now and https://tas.edu/journey use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 39 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

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

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

Large scripts ship without source maps.

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.

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

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

The homepage carries about 743 words of visible text.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 7 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 30 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.