Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

world.ku.edu

International Admissions | International Admissions

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

979 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed World.ku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 150 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

world.ku.edu performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,080 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.347

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

world.ku.edu

150 ms

world.ku.edu

270 ms

analytics.js

91 ms

ally.ui.js

167 ms

css_E6JfG3BS7AAwhVvNsUDE1AyrCXoRRkBNf14DANsrcuU.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original World.ku.edu, 38% (22 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (475 ms) belongs to the original domain World.ku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of World.ku.edu main page is 2.2 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.4 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 46.9 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 8.9 kB, which is 16% 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 44.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. World Ku images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 844.3 kB
  • After minification 844.3 kB
  • After compression 788.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 120.5 kB
  • After minification 120.4 kB
  • After compression 77.4 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. World.ku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.1 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (63%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of World Ku. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

world.ku.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

world.ku.edu 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

world.ku.edu SEO score

90

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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