Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

laureate.edu.au

Torrens University Australia - Australia's Fastest-Growing University

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

234 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

558 ms

About Website

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

Achieve success your own way with Torrens University Australia. Browse courses, campuses, study options & start your education journey today!

Visit laureate.edu.au

Key Findings

We analyzed Laureate.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 234 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

laureate.edu.au performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.265

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

laureate.edu.au

234 ms

www.torrens.edu.au

2599 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

22 ms

url-search-params.js

37 ms

marvel.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Laureate.edu.au, 79% (62 requests) were made to Torrens.edu.au and 14% (11 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Torrens.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 333.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Laureate.edu.au main page is 1.7 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. 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 846.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 254.9 kB

  • Original 321.4 kB
  • After minification 297.8 kB
  • After compression 66.4 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 254.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 846.6 kB
  • After minification 840.8 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. Laureate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 460.8 kB
  • After minification 460.8 kB
  • After compression 415.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 110.7 kB
  • After minification 110.6 kB
  • After compression 83.3 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. Laureate.edu.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.4 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (46%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Laureate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

laureate.edu.au accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

laureate.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

laureate.edu.au SEO score

85

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Laureate.edu.au 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 Laureate.edu.au 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 Laureate. 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: