Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

it.kau.edu.sa

عمادة تقنية المعلومات| جامعة الملك عبد العزيز | المملكة العربية السعودية

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

808 ms

it.kau.edu.sa screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed It.kau.edu.sa page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 8.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

it.kau.edu.sa performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.298

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

it.kau.edu.sa

1712 ms

Default.aspx

2127 ms

ga.js

30 ms

droidarabickufi.css

461 ms

droidarabicnaskh.css

464 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original It.kau.edu.sa, 12% (11 requests) were made to Prod.kau.edu.sa and 4% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain It.kau.edu.sa.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 821.6 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of It.kau.edu.sa main page is 1.9 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 870.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 116.6 kB

  • Original 217.8 kB
  • After minification 210.6 kB
  • After compression 101.2 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 116.6 kB or 54% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 103.4 kB

  • Original 870.8 kB
  • After minification 767.4 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, It Kau needs image optimization as it can save up to 103.4 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 550.5 kB

  • Original 789.1 kB
  • After minification 760.3 kB
  • After compression 238.6 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 550.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 51.2 kB

  • Original 61.7 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. It.kau.edu.sa needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (44%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of It Kau. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

it.kau.edu.sa accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

it.kau.edu.sa best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

it.kau.edu.sa SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    AR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise It.kau.edu.sa can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Arabic is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that It.kau.edu.sa 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 It Kau. 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: