Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

ncsehe.edu.au

National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

938 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

481 ms

ncsehe.edu.au screenshot

About Website

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The National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) at Curtin University works to connect student equity policy, research and practice.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncsehe.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 938 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncsehe.edu.au performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.279

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ncsehe.edu.au

938 ms

5319e40c7b1fac3aefd4d24b6a03874e-compressor-part.css

241 ms

6771aa4e4e7e06e14a83d09a8074c010-compressor-part.css

452 ms

8d452423a7af69f94dbba015e9f738b1-compressor-part.js

647 ms

b6bff09236ea09641c2a81b939e7f07f-compressor-part.js

665 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Ncsehe.edu.au, 11% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Ncsehe.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ncsehe.edu.au main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 56.4 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 46.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 114.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 918.1 kB

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, Ncsehe needs image optimization as it can save up to 114.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 104.7 kB
  • After minification 104.7 kB
  • After compression 101.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 365 B
  • After minification 365 B
  • After compression 335 B

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. Ncsehe.edu.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (48%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ncsehe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ncsehe.edu.au accessibility score

80

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

ncsehe.edu.au 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ncsehe.edu.au SEO score

91

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ncsehe.edu.au 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 Ncsehe.edu.au 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 data is detected on the main page of Ncsehe. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: