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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ecu.edu.au

Edith Cowan University | Creative thinkers made here

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

240 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

Visit ecu.edu.au now to see the best up-to-date Ecu content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ecu.edu.au

ECU is Australia's top public university for teaching quality. We offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses and research opportunities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecu.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 240 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ecu.edu.au performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,560 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecu.edu.au

240 ms

ecu.edu.au

162 ms

www.ecu.edu.au

478 ms

gtm.js

1858 ms

main.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Ecu.edu.au, 10% (4 requests) were made to Service.force.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Gtm1.ecu.edu.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Gtm1.ecu.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ecu.edu.au main page is 2.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 74.3 kB
  • After minification 63.5 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 10.8 kB, which is 15% 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 60.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Ecu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 255 B

  • Original 268.2 kB
  • After minification 268.2 kB
  • After compression 267.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 79 B

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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. Ecu.edu.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (16%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ecu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ecu.edu.au accessibility score

92

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

ecu.edu.au 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ecu.edu.au 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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ecu.edu.au 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 Ecu.edu.au 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 Ecu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: