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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ric.lk

The Best Private University in Sri Lanka - Royal Institute of Colombo (RIC)

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

ric.lk screenshot

About Website

Visit ric.lk now to see the best up-to-date RIC content for Sri Lanka and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ric.lk

Royal Institute of Colombo (RIC) The Best Private University in Sri Lanka is devoted to academic excellence in tertiary education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ric.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 7.2 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

ric.lk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,860 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ric.lk

126 ms

ric.lk

1147 ms

js

70 ms

style-blocks.build.css

30 ms

cv.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 173 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (157 requests) were addressed to the original Ric.lk, 4% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ric.lk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 494.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ric.lk main page is 4.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 246.6 kB

  • Original 295.8 kB
  • After minification 292.4 kB
  • After compression 49.2 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 246.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 208.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, RIC needs image optimization as it can save up to 208.1 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 1.9 MB

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

-6%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 291.6 kB
  • After minification 291.6 kB
  • After compression 275.3 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. Ric.lk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 129 (80%)

Requests Now

162

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 162 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RIC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 92 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 39 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

ric.lk accessibility score

87

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ric.lk 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ric.lk SEO score

91

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

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 Ric.lk 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 Ric.lk 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

ric.lk

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