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nus.sg

NUS - National University of Singapore

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

866 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

667 ms

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About Website

Visit nus.sg now to see the best up-to-date NUS content for Singapore and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nus.sg

National University of Singapore is ranked consistently as one of the world's top universities. We offer the most extensive college degree courses in Singapore.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nus.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 866 ms and then it took 8.2 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

nus.sg performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nus.sg

866 ms

nus.edu.sg

1591 ms

bootstrap.css

897 ms

bootstrap.min.css

442 ms

system.css

444 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nus.sg, 92% (49 requests) were made to Nus.edu.sg and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Nus.edu.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 667.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nus.sg main page is 5.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 32.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 86.4 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. NUS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 179.4 kB

  • Original 269.2 kB
  • After minification 236.7 kB
  • After compression 89.7 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 179.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 369.9 kB

  • Original 421.9 kB
  • After minification 361.2 kB
  • After compression 52.0 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. Nus.sg needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 369.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (41%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NUS. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

nus.sg

nus.sg

866 ms

nus.edu.sg

nus.edu.sg

1591 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

897 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

442 ms

system.css

system.css

444 ms

template.css

template.css

682 ms

megamenu.css

megamenu.css

454 ms

off-canvas.css

off-canvas.css

486 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

675 ms

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1543 ms

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673 ms

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708 ms

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902 ms

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902 ms

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core.js

903 ms

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1148 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

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1280 ms

script.min.js

script.min.js

1113 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

1773 ms

jquery.tap.min.js

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1120 ms

off-canvas.js

off-canvas.js

1332 ms

script.js

script.js

1340 ms

menu.js

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1367 ms

system.css

system.css

1216 ms

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logo.png

385 ms

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2653 ms

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1327 ms

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683 ms

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885 ms

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1105 ms

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3325 ms

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1630 ms

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1769 ms

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1327 ms

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1547 ms

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National_Medical_Excellence_Awards_2017.jpg

2656 ms

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BLOCK71-SF-1.jpg

1775 ms

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2077 ms

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Churen.JPG

2215 ms

Prof_Wang_Gungwu.jpg

Prof_Wang_Gungwu.jpg

1997 ms

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2222 ms

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2304 ms

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2439 ms

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2443 ms

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2550 ms

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2661 ms

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2667 ms

itunes.png

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2794 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

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2844 ms

collect

collect

2 ms

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collect

56 ms

top.png

top.png

2772 ms

SEO Factors

nus.sg SEO score

0

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 Nus.sg 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 Nus.sg 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of NUS. 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: