Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

universities.academy

Universities Academy Blog

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

765 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Universities.academy page load time and found that the first response time was 765 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

universities.academy performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,730 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.307

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

universities.academy

765 ms

www.universities.academy

903 ms

www.universities.academy

207 ms

custom-styles.css

521 ms

css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Universities.academy, 8% (9 requests) were made to Edge.ayboll.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Universities.academy.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (38%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Universities.academy main page is 4.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 184.7 kB

  • Original 232.3 kB
  • After minification 222.5 kB
  • After compression 47.5 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. 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 184.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Universities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 944.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 470.3 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 944.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 454.7 kB

  • Original 538.1 kB
  • After minification 530.5 kB
  • After compression 83.4 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. Universities.academy needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 454.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (57%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Universities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

universities.academy accessibility score

58

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

universities.academy best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

universities.academy SEO score

64

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

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Universities.academy 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 Universities.academy 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 Universities. 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: