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lc.ust.hk

HKUST - Center for Language Education

Page Load Speed

16.9 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

14 sec

Page Rendered

211 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lc.ust.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 14.2 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

lc.ust.hk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cle.ust.hk

2674 ms

bootstrap.min.css

1017 ms

font-awesome.min.css

1421 ms

dropdown-large.css

1222 ms

custom.css

1458 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Lc.ust.hk, 3% (1 request) were made to Webanalytic.cle.ust.hk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.8 sec) relates to the external source Cle.ust.hk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 375.6 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

911.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lc.ust.hk main page is 1.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 827.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 116.6 kB

  • Original 122.4 kB
  • After minification 40.4 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 81.9 kB, which is 67% 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 116.6 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 827.1 kB
  • After minification 819.5 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. Lc Ust images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 121.4 kB

  • Original 179.5 kB
  • After minification 173.2 kB
  • After compression 58.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 121.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 129.9 kB

  • Original 158.0 kB
  • After minification 143.2 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. Lc.ust.hk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (44%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lc Ust. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cle.ust.hk

cle.ust.hk

2674 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

1017 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

1421 ms

dropdown-large.css

dropdown-large.css

1222 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1458 ms

index.css

index.css

1521 ms

cle-navbar-search.css

cle-navbar-search.css

1466 ms

main.css

main.css

1261 ms

sym_USTwhite_h50.png

sym_USTwhite_h50.png

1305 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

1487 ms

jquery-mobile.min.js

jquery-mobile.min.js

1363 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1552 ms

bootstrap-hover-dropdown.js

bootstrap-hover-dropdown.js

1379 ms

custom2.js

custom2.js

1408 ms

language-menu.js

language-menu.js

1417 ms

presentation.jpg

presentation.jpg

6854 ms

iLANG_banner_A_02-01.jpg

iLANG_banner_A_02-01.jpg

6593 ms

course.jpg

course.jpg

3789 ms

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8823 ms

ELPA2.jpg

ELPA2.jpg

5181 ms

carousel-5c.jpg

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6972 ms

iLANG-Activities-B-02-01.jpg

iLANG-Activities-B-02-01.jpg

6566 ms

ForeignLanguages_02.jpg

ForeignLanguages_02.jpg

6842 ms

sym_UST4C-h50.png

sym_UST4C-h50.png

6832 ms

sym_CLE4C-h50.png

sym_CLE4C-h50.png

6855 ms

blue.jpg

blue.jpg

6479 ms

CLE_center_white.png

CLE_center_white.png

6201 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

7192 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

6657 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

3360 ms

SEO Factors

lc.ust.hk SEO score

0

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 Lc.ust.hk 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 Lc.ust.hk 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

lc.ust.hk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lc Ust. 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: