Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

hct.ac.ae

كليات التقنية العليا

Page Load Speed

13.9 sec in total

First Response

898 ms

Resources Loaded

12.5 sec

Page Rendered

557 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hct.ac.ae page load time and found that the first response time was 898 ms and then it took 13 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

hct.ac.ae performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,930 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hct.ac.ae

898 ms

hct.ac.ae

1121 ms

1203 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

432 ms

style.min.css

640 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Hct.ac.ae, 7% (7 requests) were made to Cdn1.readspeaker.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Addevent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Hct.ac.ae.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 245.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Hct.ac.ae main page is 2.4 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. 75% 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 158.3 kB

  • Original 181.2 kB
  • After minification 104.8 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 76.4 kB, which is 42% 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 158.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 64.4 kB

  • Original 482.7 kB
  • After minification 482.6 kB
  • After compression 418.3 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 64.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 151.2 kB
  • After minification 151.2 kB
  • After compression 141.4 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. Hct.ac.ae has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (51%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hct. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hct.ac.ae accessibility score

62

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

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

hct.ac.ae best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hct.ac.ae SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    AR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hct.ac.ae can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Arabic is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Hct.ac.ae 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. 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: