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forums.csu.edu.au

Sorry Service - Charles Sturt University

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

699 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.csu.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 699 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums.csu.edu.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

forums.csu.edu.au

699 ms

UserPassword

221 ms

auth_base.css

1615 ms

auth_enhance.css

1612 ms

auth_desktop.css

1648 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Forums.csu.edu.au, 54% (19 requests) were made to Static.csu.edu.au and 6% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Static.csu.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 212.4 kB (66%)

Content Size

321.4 kB

After Optimization

109.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Forums.csu.edu.au main page is 321.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 192.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 4.1 kB, 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 12.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 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. Obviously, Forums Csu needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 124.3 kB

  • Original 192.0 kB
  • After minification 153.2 kB
  • After compression 67.6 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 124.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 83.7 kB
  • After minification 67.0 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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. Forums.csu.edu.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (77%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Csu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

forums.csu.edu.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forums.csu.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 Forums.csu.edu.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Forums Csu. 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: