Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ocw.nctu.edu.tw

國立陽明交通大學開放式課程(OpenCourseWare, OCW).

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

209 ms

ocw.nctu.edu.tw screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ocw.nctu.edu.tw homepage info - get ready to check OCW Nctu best content for Taiwan right away, or after learning these important things about ocw.nctu.edu.tw

國立交通大學開放式課程網站OCW每學期提供10門以上之優質課程,包含各院系基礎、專業課程、共同必修課程及通識教育課程,無償地提供自學者更多元豐富的學習管道。本網站於2012年更從全球超過250個大學開放式課程網站中脫穎而出,百裡選一地獲得全球開放式課程聯盟年度「標竿網站獎」(LandmarkSite Award)。

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ocw.nctu.edu.tw page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ocw.nctu.edu.tw performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ocw.nctu.edu.tw

1538 ms

default.js

417 ms

Header.css

422 ms

style.css

1260 ms

page-numbers.css

421 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Ocw.nctu.edu.tw, 13% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Ocw.nctu.edu.tw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 255.9 kB (42%)

Content Size

606.0 kB

After Optimization

350.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ocw.nctu.edu.tw main page is 606.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 429.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 31.1 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 3.3 kB, which is 11% 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 24.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 129.5 kB

  • Original 429.3 kB
  • After minification 299.7 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, OCW Nctu needs image optimization as it can save up to 129.5 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 77.2 kB
  • After minification 61.0 kB
  • After compression 35.6 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 41.5 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 60.7 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 53.3 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Ocw.nctu.edu.tw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (19%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of OCW Nctu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ocw.nctu.edu.tw accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ocw.nctu.edu.tw best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ocw.nctu.edu.tw SEO score

83

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ocw.nctu.edu.tw can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Chinese 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 Ocw.nctu.edu.tw 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 OCW Nctu. 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: