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gust.edu.kw

Gulf University for Science and Technology

Page Load Speed

14.5 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

739 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gust.edu.kw page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 11.5 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

gust.edu.kw performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.gust.edu.kw

3016 ms

system.base.css

679 ms

system.messages.css

674 ms

system.theme.css

677 ms

views_slideshow.css

689 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (94 requests) were addressed to the original Gust.edu.kw, 1% (1 request) were made to Releases.flowplayer.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Gust.edu.kw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (24%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Gust.edu.kw main page is 6.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 41.5 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.1 kB, which is 15% 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 33.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 346.6 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Gust Edu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 256.3 kB

  • Original 343.8 kB
  • After minification 266.1 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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 256.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 834.1 kB

  • Original 972.5 kB
  • After minification 882.8 kB
  • After compression 138.4 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. Gust.edu.kw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 834.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (68%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gust Edu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 43 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

gust.edu.kw SEO score

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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 Gust.edu.kw 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 Gust.edu.kw 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 Gust Edu. 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: