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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

ecommons.aku.edu

AKU Institutional Repository

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

786 ms

Resources Loaded

7.8 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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eCommons@AKU is a digital archive offering access to the research, scholarly output and publications of the Aga Khan University community. The objective is to preserve, promote and provide access to t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecommons.aku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 786 ms and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ecommons.aku.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value710 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.424

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecommons.aku.edu

786 ms

yui-min.js

20 ms

ir-style.css

424 ms

ir-custom.css

420 ms

ir-local.css

427 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Ecommons.aku.edu, 13% (14 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Assets.bepress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Ecommons.aku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 683.0 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ecommons.aku.edu 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 135.2 kB

  • Original 170.2 kB
  • After minification 165.2 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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 135.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Ecommons AKU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 344.7 kB

  • Original 552.8 kB
  • After minification 539.6 kB
  • After compression 208.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 344.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 184.1 kB

  • Original 221.8 kB
  • After minification 167.4 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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. Ecommons.aku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 184.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (69%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ecommons AKU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ecommons.aku.edu

ecommons.aku.edu

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Accessibility Review

ecommons.aku.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

ecommons.aku.edu 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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ecommons.aku.edu SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Ecommons.aku.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 Ecommons.aku.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

ecommons.aku.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ecommons AKU. 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: