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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

aaup.edu

ARAB AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | THE FIRST PRIVATE UNIVERSITY IN PALESTINE

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

488 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Aaup content for Palestinian Territory. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about aaup.edu

Arab American University (AAUP formerly AAUJ) is a private Palestinian university that was established to provide outstanding undergraduate and postgraduate education, research, and community service....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aaup.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aaup.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.425

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aaup.edu

52 ms

aaup.edu

563 ms

www.aaup.edu

829 ms

fbevents.js

21 ms

system.base.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (135 requests) were addressed to the original Aaup.edu, 3% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Aaup.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.1 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aaup.edu main page is 2.2 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 152.0 kB

  • Original 177.8 kB
  • After minification 161.3 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 152.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 194.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, Aaup needs image optimization as it can save up to 194.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 67.6 kB

  • Original 264.6 kB
  • After minification 254.4 kB
  • After compression 197.0 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 67.6 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 53.5 kB

  • Original 121.1 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 67.6 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. Aaup.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.5 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (55%)

Requests Now

139

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 139 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aaup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

aaup.edu accessibility score

76

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 do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

aaup.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

aaup.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 Aaup.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 Aaup.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

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