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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

southasianuniversity.org

HOME - SAU - South Asian University

Page Load Speed

14.8 sec in total

First Response

586 ms

Resources Loaded

14 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing South Asian University content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about southasianuniversity.org

The South Asian University is an International University sponsored by the eight Member States of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).The eight countries are: Afghanistan, Ban...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southasianuniversity.org page load time and found that the first response time was 586 ms and then it took 14.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southasianuniversity.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,530 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.174

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southasianuniversity.org

586 ms

www.sau.int

11161 ms

jquery.min.js

5 ms

g=jqueryPlugins

263 ms

g=customJS

503 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Southasianuniversity.org, 61% (22 requests) were made to Sau.int and 19% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.2 sec) relates to the external source Sau.int.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 273.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

803.3 kB

After Optimization

530.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Southasianuniversity.org main page is 803.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 437.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 219 B

  • Original 336.7 kB
  • After minification 336.5 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. South Asian University images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 252.1 kB

  • Original 437.5 kB
  • After minification 437.5 kB
  • After compression 185.4 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 252.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (29%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Asian University. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southasianuniversity.org

southasianuniversity.org

586 ms

www.sau.int

www.sau.int

11161 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

5 ms

g=jqueryPlugins

g=jqueryPlugins

263 ms

g=customJS

g=customJS

503 ms

g=customCSS1

g=customCSS1

506 ms

css

css

21 ms

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xsau_logo.gif.pagespeed.ic.yMsXRYEQn-.png

248 ms

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973 ms

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979 ms

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1221 ms

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1222 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

482 ms

spriteme1.png

spriteme1.png

483 ms

spriteme2.png

spriteme2.png

724 ms

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730 ms

bullet6_white.gif

bullet6_white.gif

966 ms

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xlogo_small_sau.gif.pagespeed.ic.gbm3iYkbFG.png

973 ms

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1211 ms

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50x52xtwitter_sau.jpg.pagespeed.ic.O6pZQ2hpNZ.jpg

1213 ms

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48x52xblog_sau.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Qchf1Etuqv.jpg

1218 ms

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48x52xadmissionBlog_sau.jpg.pagespeed.ic.btz3qqQ0ho.jpg

1220 ms

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49x52xyoutube_sau.jpg.pagespeed.ic.DkVo0h30pv.jpg

1455 ms

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Nx45xgplus.png.pagespeed.ic.XxZgZWAmWi.png

1456 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

64 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

7 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

5 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

36 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

46 ms

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rs=AGLTcCOnDxwX8-LbpDmaxOBIoHm7W_kGNA

3 ms

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971028622-postmessagerelay.js

20 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

90 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

2 ms

g=customCSS

g=customCSS

253 ms

Accessibility Review

southasianuniversity.org accessibility score

59

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

southasianuniversity.org best practices score

50

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

southasianuniversity.org SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southasianuniversity.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Southasianuniversity.org 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

southasianuniversity.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of South Asian University. 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: