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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

aud.edu

American University in Dubai (AUD) - Get Life Ready

Page Load Speed

13.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

11.6 sec

Page Rendered

411 ms

aud.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to aud.edu homepage info - get ready to check AUD best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about aud.edu

American University in Dubai (AUD) is one of the most established universities in the region, located in one of the fastest growing and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Building upon years of success...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aud.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 12 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

aud.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aud.edu

1057 ms

css

40 ms

css

57 ms

app.min.css

618 ms

Icon_style.css

598 ms

Our browser made a total of 214 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (186 requests) were addressed to the original Aud.edu, 2% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Aud.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 462.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

7.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aud.edu main page is 8.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 336.4 kB

  • Original 368.4 kB
  • After minification 268.5 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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 99.9 kB, which is 27% 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 336.4 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 48.6 kB

  • Original 7.3 MB
  • After minification 7.3 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. AUD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 56.0 kB

  • Original 219.3 kB
  • After minification 219.3 kB
  • After compression 163.3 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 56.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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. Aud.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.1 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (21%)

Requests Now

205

After Optimization

161

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 205 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AUD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

aud.edu

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Accessibility Review

aud.edu accessibility score

95

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

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

aud.edu 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

aud.edu SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aud.edu 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 Aud.edu 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

aud.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of AUD. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: