Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

students.aau.ac.ae

Deanship of Student Affairs - Al Ain University(AAU) - One of the Best Universities in UAE

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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About Website

Visit students.aau.ac.ae now to see the best up-to-date Student S AAU content for United Arab Emirates and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about students.aau.ac.ae

Al Ain University, Local University with International Standards and one of the best universities in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain UAE with 6 colleges in science and technology.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Students.aau.ac.ae page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

students.aau.ac.ae performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

346 ms

screen.css

134 ms

jquery.min.js

65 ms

buttons.js

6 ms

main-ck.js

272 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Students.aau.ac.ae, 5% (4 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Students.aau.ac.ae.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 714.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Students.aau.ac.ae main page is 2.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 42.3 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 17.7 kB, which is 42% 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 36.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 77.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Student S AAU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 441.5 kB

  • Original 618.0 kB
  • After minification 617.9 kB
  • After compression 176.5 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 441.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 159.0 kB

  • Original 185.3 kB
  • After minification 151.8 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. Students.aau.ac.ae needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 159.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (37%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student S AAU. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

students.aau.ac.ae accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

students.aau.ac.ae best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

students.aau.ac.ae SEO score

76

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 doesn't use 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 Students.aau.ac.ae 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 Students.aau.ac.ae 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 Student S AAU. 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: