Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

web.usm.my

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Page Load Speed

12.8 sec in total

First Response

750 ms

Resources Loaded

11.7 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Web.usm.my page load time and found that the first response time was 750 ms and then it took 12 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

web.usm.my performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,620 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

web.usm.my

750 ms

255 ms

1405 ms

widgetkit-9ee4930c.css

331 ms

bootstrap.css

750 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Web.usm.my, 96% (108 requests) were made to Usm.my and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Usm.my.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 737.2 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Web.usm.my main page is 2.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 46.4 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 39.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 207.9 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB

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. Web Usm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 265.3 kB

  • Original 382.3 kB
  • After minification 380.7 kB
  • After compression 117.0 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 265.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 224.5 kB

  • Original 265.5 kB
  • After minification 214.6 kB
  • After compression 41.0 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. Web.usm.my needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (50%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Web Usm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

web.usm.my accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

web.usm.my 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

web.usm.my SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    MS

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Web.usm.my can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Malay language. Our system also found out that Web.usm.my 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Web Usm. 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: