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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

unsw.edu

UNSW Sydney | One of the best universities in Australia

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

699 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unsw.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 699 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

unsw.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,120 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unsw.edu

699 ms

www.unsw.edu.au

270 ms

clientlib-common-base.min.4.13.4.css

34 ms

clientlib-site.min.4.13.4.css

112 ms

clientlib-common-components.min.4.13.4.css

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Unsw.edu, 69% (53 requests) were made to Unsw.edu.au and 8% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Unsw.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 511.9 kB (54%)

Content Size

950.6 kB

After Optimization

438.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Unsw.edu main page is 950.6 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. 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. CSS take 367.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 112.2 kB

  • Original 126.2 kB
  • After minification 104.1 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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 22.1 kB, which is 17% 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 112.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 343.4 kB
  • After minification 318.5 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. UNSW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 63.9 kB

  • Original 113.4 kB
  • After minification 111.9 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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 63.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 310.9 kB

  • Original 367.7 kB
  • After minification 367.5 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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. Unsw.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 310.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (50%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UNSW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

unsw.edu

unsw.edu

699 ms

www.unsw.edu.au

www.unsw.edu.au

270 ms

clientlib-common-base.min.4.13.4.css

clientlib-common-base.min.4.13.4.css

34 ms

clientlib-site.min.4.13.4.css

clientlib-site.min.4.13.4.css

112 ms

clientlib-common-components.min.4.13.4.css

clientlib-common-components.min.4.13.4.css

111 ms

launch-5f04fe5ed56c.min.js

launch-5f04fe5ed56c.min.js

663 ms

unsw_0.png

unsw_0.png

135 ms

PcDkZsiJAK4

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374 ms

clientlib-analytics.min.4.13.4.js

clientlib-analytics.min.4.13.4.js

131 ms

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jquery.min.4.13.4.js

131 ms

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130 ms

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146 ms

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129 ms

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159 ms

clientlib-common-base.min.4.13.4.js

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172 ms

clientlib-common-components.min.4.13.4.js

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171 ms

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clientlib-shared.min.4.13.4.js

159 ms

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header-search.min.4.13.4.js

171 ms

hero-search.min.4.13.4.js

hero-search.min.4.13.4.js

171 ms

envelope.svg

envelope.svg

355 ms

UNSW_Homepage_700x700.cropimg.width=335.crop=square.jpg

UNSW_Homepage_700x700.cropimg.width=335.crop=square.jpg

367 ms

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366 ms

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Bees-greenhouse-0001.cropimg.width=335.crop=square.jpg

365 ms

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365 ms

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453 ms

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370 ms

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757 ms

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756 ms

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758 ms

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759 ms

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377 ms

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419 ms

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2021-12-16-UNSW-Business-PRINT-162.cropimg.width=335.crop=square.jpg

454 ms

arrow-up.svg

arrow-up.svg

452 ms

UNSW_logo_white.png

UNSW_logo_white.png

455 ms

logo_partners_groupofeight.png

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455 ms

logo_partners_universitas21.png

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456 ms

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457 ms

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458 ms

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458 ms

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572 ms

external.svg

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526 ms

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627 ms

arrow-right.svg

arrow-right.svg

624 ms

footer-background.svg

footer-background.svg

626 ms

token.json

token.json

1264 ms

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408 ms

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622 ms

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622 ms

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623 ms

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1107 ms

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1056 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

18 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

58 ms

base.js

base.js

100 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

56 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

320 ms

id

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350 ms

AppMeasurement.min.js

AppMeasurement.min.js

249 ms

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

295 ms

AppMeasurement_Module_AudienceManagement.min.js

AppMeasurement_Module_AudienceManagement.min.js

374 ms

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55 ms

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95 ms

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155 ms

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55 ms

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329 ms

Create

Create

171 ms

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121 ms

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61 ms

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46 ms

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47 ms

Accessibility Review

unsw.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

unsw.edu best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

unsw.edu SEO score

84

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Unsw.edu 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 Unsw.edu 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

unsw.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of UNSW. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: