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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

academiccareers.com

Academic Careers - College & University Jobs‎

Page Load Speed

12.8 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

7.6 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Academic Careers content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about academiccareers.com

Academic Careers, the ultimate global university job site. Find college jobs, university jobs, Faculty Jobs and professor jobs. Jobs at Colleges and Jobs at Universities. Advertise University Jobs

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Key Findings

We analyzed Academiccareers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 10.7 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

academiccareers.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

academiccareers.com

2068 ms

ga.js

21 ms

background.gif

1731 ms

acologo.jpg

1715 ms

nsmailL7.gif

1714 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Academiccareers.com, 18% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Academiccareers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

138.1 kB

After Optimization

123.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Academiccareers.com main page is 138.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 108.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 9.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 108.5 kB
  • After minification 104.0 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. Academic Careers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Academic Careers. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

academiccareers.com

academiccareers.com

2068 ms

ga.js

ga.js

21 ms

background.gif

background.gif

1731 ms

acologo.jpg

acologo.jpg

1715 ms

nsmailL7.gif

nsmailL7.gif

1714 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

1713 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

525 ms

diversity200711.jpg

diversity200711.jpg

762 ms

Academic-Careers-JobSite.jpg

Academic-Careers-JobSite.jpg

976 ms

academic-careers-university-jobs.jpg

academic-careers-university-jobs.jpg

975 ms

acologo80.jpg

acologo80.jpg

959 ms

Accessibility Review

academiccareers.com accessibility score

82

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

academiccareers.com 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

academiccareers.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Academiccareers.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Academiccareers.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

academiccareers.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Academic Careers. 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: