Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

hse.ru

HSE University

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

633 ms

hse.ru screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing HSE content for Russia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hse.ru

HSE is one of the top universities in Russia and the leader in Eastern Europe and Eurasia in economics and social sciences

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hse.ru page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hse.ru performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hse.ru

345 ms

www.hse.ru

760 ms

297 ms

main_fonts.css

161 ms

main_icons.css

296 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Hse.ru, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Mc.yandex.ru. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Hse.ru.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 279.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Hse.ru 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 46.7 kB

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 10.2 kB, which is 18% 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 46.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 67.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. HSE images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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 7.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 157.9 kB

  • Original 192.4 kB
  • After minification 157.6 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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. Hse.ru needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 157.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (30%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HSE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hse.ru accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

hse.ru best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hse.ru SEO score

76

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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