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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

student.kaust.edu.sa

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | KAUST

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

504 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

879 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Student.kaust.edu.sa page load time and found that the first response time was 504 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

student.kaust.edu.sa performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value86.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.kaust.edu.sa

504 ms

609 ms

WebResource.axd

515 ms

jquery-2.2.3.min.js

41 ms

Scripts.js

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Student.kaust.edu.sa, 9% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (609 ms) relates to the external source Kaust.edu.sa.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 818.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

30.9 MB

After Optimization

30.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Student.kaust.edu.sa main page is 30.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 30.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 91.8 kB

  • Original 107.7 kB
  • After minification 69.1 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 38.6 kB, which is 36% 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 91.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 641.8 kB

  • Original 30.1 MB
  • After minification 29.5 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. Student KAUST images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 66.9 kB

  • Original 607.1 kB
  • After minification 606.6 kB
  • After compression 540.2 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 66.9 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 51.1 kB
  • After compression 46.1 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. Student.kaust.edu.sa needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.7 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (49%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student KAUST. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.kaust.edu.sa

www.kaust.edu.sa

504 ms

609 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

515 ms

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41 ms

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82 ms

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63 ms

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138 ms

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Accessibility Review

student.kaust.edu.sa accessibility score

77

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

student.kaust.edu.sa best practices score

58

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

student.kaust.edu.sa SEO score

69

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Student.kaust.edu.sa 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 Student.kaust.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

student.kaust.edu.sa

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Student KAUST. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: