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buck.ugent.be

Ghent University Library

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

148 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buck.ugent.be page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buck.ugent.be performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

buck.ugent.be

329 ms

lib.ugent.be

509 ms

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576 ms

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167 ms

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638 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Buck.ugent.be, 76% (16 requests) were made to Lib.ugent.be and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (638 ms) relates to the external source Lib.ugent.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.1 kB (49%)

Content Size

737.1 kB

After Optimization

374.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buck.ugent.be main page is 737.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 293.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 10.9 kB
  • After minification 9.1 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.8 kB, which is 16% 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 7.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 236.5 kB
  • After minification 234.1 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. Buck Ugent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 188.0 kB

  • Original 293.7 kB
  • After minification 293.7 kB
  • After compression 105.7 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 188.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 165.1 kB

  • Original 196.1 kB
  • After minification 195.3 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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. Buck.ugent.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 165.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (22%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buck Ugent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

buck.ugent.be

buck.ugent.be

329 ms

lib.ugent.be

lib.ugent.be

509 ms

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576 ms

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167 ms

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638 ms

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168 ms

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168 ms

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169 ms

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543 ms

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168 ms

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248 ms

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454 ms

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498 ms

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24 ms

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312 ms

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169 ms

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167 ms

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169 ms

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330 ms

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57 ms

SEO Factors

buck.ugent.be SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Buck.ugent.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Buck.ugent.be 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Buck Ugent. 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: