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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

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Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Now.ntu.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

now.ntu.ac.uk performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

now.ntu.ac.uk

309 ms

now.ntu.ac.uk

705 ms

login

76 ms

538 ms

style.css

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Now.ntu.ac.uk, 57% (4 requests) were made to Fs.ntu.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (705 ms) belongs to the original domain Now.ntu.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

234.8 kB

After Optimization

210.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Now.ntu.ac.uk main page is 234.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 203.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. 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 18.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 203.1 kB
  • After minification 203.0 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. Now Ntu images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 4.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Now.ntu.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Now Ntu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

now.ntu.ac.uk

now.ntu.ac.uk

309 ms

now.ntu.ac.uk

now.ntu.ac.uk

705 ms

login

login

76 ms

538 ms

style.css

style.css

174 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

96 ms

illustration.jpg

illustration.jpg

266 ms

Accessibility Review

now.ntu.ac.uk accessibility score

94

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

now.ntu.ac.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

now.ntu.ac.uk SEO score

83

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

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 Now.ntu.ac.uk 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 Now.ntu.ac.uk 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

now.ntu.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Now Ntu. 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: