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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

cedars.hku.hk

Centre of Development and Resources for Students | HKU

Page Load Speed

22.5 sec in total

First Response

789 ms

Resources Loaded

21.1 sec

Page Rendered

642 ms

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About Website

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Centre of Development and Resources for Students, CEDARS, HKU, The University of Hong Kong, Campus Life, Careers and Placement, Counselling and Person Enrichment, Student Development, CoPE

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cedars.hku.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 789 ms and then it took 21.7 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.

Performance Metrics

cedars.hku.hk performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value46.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.116

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cedars.hku.hk

789 ms

www.cedars.hku.hk

2957 ms

stylesheet.css

439 ms

flexslider.css

658 ms

slick.min.css

659 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Cedars.hku.hk, 8% (6 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Cedars.hku.hk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.3 MB (65%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cedars.hku.hk main page is 6.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 88.4 kB

  • Original 104.3 kB
  • After minification 91.9 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 12.4 kB, which is 12% 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 88.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 4.1 MB

  • Original 6.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Obviously, Cedars HKU needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.1 MB or 66% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 176.2 kB
  • After minification 175.6 kB
  • After compression 137.5 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 38.6 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 34.0 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. Cedars.hku.hk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.8 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (40%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cedars HKU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cedars.hku.hk

cedars.hku.hk

789 ms

www.cedars.hku.hk

www.cedars.hku.hk

2957 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

439 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

658 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

659 ms

slick-theme.min.css

slick-theme.min.css

661 ms

small_calendar.css

small_calendar.css

662 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

889 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.min.js

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1119 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css

878 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

877 ms

jquery.colorbox.js

jquery.colorbox.js

881 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

879 ms

tabs.js

tabs.js

1095 ms

common.js

common.js

1096 ms

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jfunctions.js

1099 ms

formElements.js

formElements.js

1099 ms

jquery.flexslider2-min.js

jquery.flexslider2-min.js

1110 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1316 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

1315 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

1321 ms

all.css

all.css

34 ms

aos.js

aos.js

39 ms

aos.css

aos.css

59 ms

flexmasonry.css

flexmasonry.css

67 ms

flexmasonry.js

flexmasonry.js

56 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

1328 ms

small_calendar.js

small_calendar.js

1329 ms

flexmasonry.js

flexmasonry.js

19 ms

flexmasonry.css

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14 ms

css2

css2

38 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

38 ms

hku-logo.png

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276 ms

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279 ms

instagram.png

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277 ms

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278 ms

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278 ms

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275 ms

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3696 ms

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6310 ms

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4581 ms

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5033 ms

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4829 ms

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16211 ms

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5494 ms

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5479 ms

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6315 ms

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39 ms

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13 ms

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6627 ms

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77 ms

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122 ms

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128 ms

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6406 ms

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6443 ms

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Accessibility Review

cedars.hku.hk accessibility score

83

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cedars.hku.hk 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

cedars.hku.hk SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cedars.hku.hk 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 Cedars.hku.hk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

cedars.hku.hk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cedars HKU. 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: