Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

hkit.edu.hk

Hong Kong Institute of Technology(HKIT)

Page Load Speed

13.3 sec in total

First Response

653 ms

Resources Loaded

12.4 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hkit.edu.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 653 ms and then it took 12.7 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

hkit.edu.hk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hkit.edu.hk

653 ms

main.php

859 ms

style.css

819 ms

jquery-ui.1.11.2.css

1027 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

1446 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Hkit.edu.hk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Malsup.github.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Malsup.github.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Hkit.edu.hk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 688.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Hkit.edu.hk main page is 3.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 30.1 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 7.1 kB, which is 24% 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 24.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 284.5 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. HKIT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 287.7 kB

  • Original 412.6 kB
  • After minification 410.9 kB
  • After compression 124.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 287.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 91.9 kB

  • Original 112.4 kB
  • After minification 90.9 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Hkit.edu.hk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 91.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (29%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HKIT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hkit.edu.hk accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hkit.edu.hk best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hkit.edu.hk SEO score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    ZH

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hkit.edu.hk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Chinese language. Our system also found out that Hkit.edu.hk 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 description is not detected on the main page of HKIT. 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: