International School Websites in Southeast Asia Benchmark Report 2023

We highlight the most accessible, responsive, and top-performing international schools in Southeast Asia in our overall score category.

We scanned a sample of 500 pages from the main publicly facing websites of 30 international schools in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand using Monsido’s Web Governance software during a two-week period in July 2023.

The champions with overall scores ranking in the top 5 for July 2023 are listed below.

Content quality assurance in Monsido detects spelling errors, broken links, images, and readability issues. In addition to lowering bounce rates, increasing conversions, and improving SEO, quality assurance can help (future) students find information about their prospective education programs more easily.

The benchmark average for quality assurance in this report was just 67.54%.

The school's websites listed below deserve credit for making an outstanding effort to raise the bar for content quality assurance.

On-page SEO continues to have a crucial impact on search engine rankings. Neglecting essential elements such as H1 tags, broken links, and excessive internal links can negatively affect both your rankings and your visitor’s overall experience.

The average SEO score was 83.76%

We praise the following schools for taking leadership positions in the SEO category.

Ensuring a fast-loading website is essential for SEO, as it is a ranking factor utilized by Google, and enhances user experience. With the help of Monsido's Heartbeat module, you can monitor your website's performance, ensuring a positive user experience and averting any potential visitor frustration.

The schools’ websites in this report had an average response time of 1448.23 ms. Your score must be under 200 ms for you to be considered an excellent performer.

The following top five European high education institutions can be proud of their exceptional response time results.

Assessing the overall website performance score (ranging from 0 to 100) using Google LightHouse and Core Web Vitals offers a comprehensive understanding of how factors such as visitor location, network speed, and device impact your site's performance. It provides valuable insights into the overall performance of your website.

The average desktop performance rating for this benchmark report was just 43.30. At Monsido we suggest you aim for a score between 90 and 100.

Below is a list of the top five Southeast Asian International school websites, based on their desktop performance score in this report.

We looked at 30 international schools’ websites in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand for 2.5 weeks at the end of June to the beginning of July 2023.

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Monsido:

• Scanned a sample of 500 pages from the main publicly facing websites of 30 Southeast Asian international school websites using Monsido’s Web Governance software during a two-week period in February 2023.
• Ranked the websites based on their scores in Web Accessibility, Content Quality Assurance, SEO, and Response Time.
• Calculated the Overall champions based on the average (weighted) ranking in all categories, prioritizing Web Accessibility, then Content Quality Assurance, Response Time, and SEO and Performance.