Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

hct.edu.om

University of Technology and Applied Sciences - Muscat - Home

Page Load Speed

105.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

72.4 sec

Page Rendered

31.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hct.edu.om page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 104 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 14 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

hct.edu.om performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value30.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.542

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hct.edu.om

1119 ms

www.hct.edu.om

11797 ms

k2.fonts.css

608 ms

k2.css

488 ms

bootstrap.min.css

772 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (105 requests) were addressed to the original Hct.edu.om, 7% (10 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Hct.edu.om.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (15%)

Content Size

15.0 MB

After Optimization

12.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Hct.edu.om main page is 15.0 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. 85% 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 12.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 101.0 kB

  • Original 114.2 kB
  • After minification 69.8 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 44.4 kB, which is 39% 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 101.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 424.7 kB

  • Original 12.5 MB
  • After minification 12.0 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. Hct Edu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 811.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 452.8 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 811.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 966.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 186.8 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. Hct.edu.om needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 966.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (45%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

64

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hct 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 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hct.edu.om accessibility score

79

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

[role] values are not valid

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

hct.edu.om 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hct.edu.om SEO score

89

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

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 Hct.edu.om 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 Hct.edu.om 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 Hct 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: