Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

studiegids.ugent.be

Study guide

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

634 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

87 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studiegids.ugent.be page load time and found that the first response time was 634 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studiegids.ugent.be performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studiegids.ugent.be

634 ms

studiegids.html

85 ms

studiegids.html

86 ms

programma.js

82 ms

studiegids.css

173 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Studiegids.ugent.be, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (634 ms) belongs to the original domain Studiegids.ugent.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.2 kB (71%)

Content Size

107.9 kB

After Optimization

31.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Studiegids.ugent.be main page is 107.9 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 54.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 4.9 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 579 B, which is 11% 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 3.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 409 B
  • After minification 385 B

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. Studiegids Ugent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 33.2 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 47.5 kB
  • After minification 32.8 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Studiegids.ugent.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (63%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Studiegids 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

studiegids.ugent.be accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

studiegids.ugent.be best practices score

77

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

SEO Factors

studiegids.ugent.be SEO score

46

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Studiegids.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 Studiegids.ugent.be main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Studiegids 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: