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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

sim.edu.sg

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Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

950 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sim.edu.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 950 ms and then it took 9.5 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

sim.edu.sg performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,110 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sim.edu.sg

950 ms

www.sim.edu.sg

3046 ms

main.css

8 ms

pageComponents.css

19 ms

evergage.min.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Sim.edu.sg, 34% (31 requests) were made to Onesim-production.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Sim.edu.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 834.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

12.6 MB

After Optimization

11.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sim.edu.sg main page is 12.6 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 11.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 204.4 kB

  • Original 220.2 kB
  • After minification 100.3 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 119.9 kB, which is 54% 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 204.4 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 157.7 kB

  • Original 11.5 MB
  • After minification 11.4 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. SIM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 307.8 kB
  • After minification 307.8 kB
  • After compression 306.5 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

-86%

Potential reduce by 470.8 kB

  • Original 550.4 kB
  • After minification 540.9 kB
  • After compression 79.7 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. Sim.edu.sg needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 470.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (55%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SIM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sim.edu.sg accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Best Practices

sim.edu.sg 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

sim.edu.sg SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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