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my.csu.edu.au

Gateway to CSU | Charles Sturt University

Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

687 ms

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

139 ms

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Charles Sturt University (CSU) located in the cities of Albury-Wodonga,Bathurst and Wagga Wagga, three of the fastest growing cities in NSW. As well as these campuses, the University is represented in...

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Key Findings

We analyzed My.csu.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 687 ms and then it took 10 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

my.csu.edu.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

my.csu.edu.au

687 ms

staff.csu.edu.au

3180 ms

staff.csu.edu.au

869 ms

SSO;jsessionid=C6ADF613F25D6F879C309283A1263CA5

215 ms

auth_base.css

2323 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original My.csu.edu.au, 58% (19 requests) were made to Static.csu.edu.au and 6% (2 requests) were made to Staff.csu.edu.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Staff.csu.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 208.8 kB (66%)

Content Size

316.5 kB

After Optimization

107.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of My.csu.edu.au main page is 316.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 187.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 6.4 kB, which is 40% 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 12.5 kB or 79% 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, My 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

-64%

Potential reduce by 120.5 kB

  • Original 187.6 kB
  • After minification 148.9 kB
  • After compression 67.1 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 120.5 kB or 64% 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. My.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 18 (67%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

my.csu.edu.au

my.csu.edu.au

687 ms

staff.csu.edu.au

staff.csu.edu.au

3180 ms

staff.csu.edu.au

staff.csu.edu.au

869 ms

SSO;jsessionid=C6ADF613F25D6F879C309283A1263CA5

SSO;jsessionid=C6ADF613F25D6F879C309283A1263CA5

215 ms

auth_base.css

auth_base.css

2323 ms

auth_enhance.css

auth_enhance.css

2331 ms

auth_desktop.css

auth_desktop.css

2129 ms

modernizer-2.5.3.js

modernizer-2.5.3.js

2363 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

2591 ms

main.js

main.js

2153 ms

content-scripts.js

content-scripts.js

2339 ms

jquery.flexnav.js

jquery.flexnav.js

2372 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

2529 ms

mlc6gqe.js

mlc6gqe.js

105 ms

global.js

global.js

2537 ms

service_availability.js

service_availability.js

2550 ms

footer.js

footer.js

2577 ms

grey-grad-bg.gif

grey-grad-bg.gif

219 ms

CSU_logo_abrev.png

CSU_logo_abrev.png

216 ms

logo-full_bg-white.jpg

logo-full_bg-white.jpg

417 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

54 ms

header-bg-white-v3.gif

header-bg-white-v3.gif

210 ms

gradient-3.jpg

gradient-3.jpg

218 ms

module-title-1.jpg

module-title-1.jpg

208 ms

arrow.gif

arrow.gif

421 ms

status.json

status.json

1103 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

26 ms

9066.js

9066.js

56 ms

collect

collect

6 ms

collect

collect

53 ms

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s

54 ms

u

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41 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

53 ms

SEO Factors

my.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 My.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 My.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

my.csu.edu.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of My 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: