Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

apply.aud.edu

American University in Dubai (AUD) - Get Life Ready

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

62 ms

apply.aud.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to apply.aud.edu homepage info - get ready to check Apply AUD best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about apply.aud.edu

American University in Dubai (AUD) is one of the most established universities in the region, located in one of the fastest growing and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Building upon years of success...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apply.aud.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apply.aud.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,850 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apply.aud.edu

1123 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Apply.aud.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Apply.aud.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130 B (56%)

Content Size

231 B

After Optimization

101 B

In fact, the total size of Apply.aud.edu main page is 231 B. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 231 B which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 130 B

  • Original 231 B
  • After minification 173 B
  • After compression 101 B

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 58 B, which is 25% 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 130 B or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

apply.aud.edu accessibility score

95

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

apply.aud.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

SEO Factors

apply.aud.edu SEO score

83

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apply.aud.edu 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 Apply.aud.edu main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Apply AUD. 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: