Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

sps.nus.edu.sg

Special Programme in Science – Live curious

Page Load Speed

27.9 sec in total

First Response

792 ms

Resources Loaded

17.7 sec

Page Rendered

9.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sps.nus.edu.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 792 ms and then it took 27.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sps.nus.edu.sg performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sps.nus.edu.sg

792 ms

sps.nus.edu.sg

1820 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

215 ms

wp-customer-reviews.css

435 ms

style.min.css

653 ms

Our browser made a total of 179 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (163 requests) were addressed to the original Sps.nus.edu.sg, 5% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Sps.nus.edu.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Sps.nus.edu.sg main page is 6.0 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 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 87.1 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 102.8 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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. 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 87.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 476.0 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Sps Nus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 604.6 kB
  • After minification 604.6 kB
  • After compression 590.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 259.9 kB
  • After minification 259.9 kB
  • After compression 254.5 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. Sps.nus.edu.sg has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 136 (90%)

Requests Now

151

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 151 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sps Nus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 84 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 54 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sps.nus.edu.sg accessibility score

93

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.

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

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

sps.nus.edu.sg 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sps.nus.edu.sg SEO score

90

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 Sps.nus.edu.sg 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 Sps.nus.edu.sg 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 Sps Nus. 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: