Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

uni-kiel.de

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

697 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

234 ms

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About Website

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Einzige Volluniversität und wissenschaftliches Zentrum von Schleswig-Holstein. 27000 Studierende, rund 3700 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uni-kiel.de page load time and found that the first response time was 697 ms and then it took 2.9 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

uni-kiel.de performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.729

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.uni-kiel.de

697 ms

style.css

299 ms

aktuell.css

201 ms

shadowbox.css

203 ms

shadowbox.js

593 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Uni-kiel.de and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (994 ms) belongs to the original domain Uni-kiel.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.1 kB (18%)

Content Size

794.7 kB

After Optimization

651.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Uni-kiel.de main page is 794.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 666.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 21.8 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 3.3 kB, which is 13% 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 19.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 666.5 kB
  • After minification 619.6 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. Uni Kiel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 61.2 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 45.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 29.5 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. Uni-kiel.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (36%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uni Kiel. 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

uni-kiel.de accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

uni-kiel.de best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

uni-kiel.de SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Uni-kiel.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Uni-kiel.de main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Uni Kiel. 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: