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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

scu.edu.au

Southern Cross University

Page Load Speed

28.5 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

23.4 sec

Page Rendered

3.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scu.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 26.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scu.edu.au performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,520 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.scu.edu.au

1893 ms

uof2mar.css

55 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

28 ms

f5d9c45efe.js

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Scu.edu.au, 41% (48 requests) were made to Pxl-v6-scueduau.terminalfour.net and 5% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.8 sec) relates to the external source Pxl-v6-scueduau.terminalfour.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 453.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

18.9 MB

After Optimization

18.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scu.edu.au main page is 18.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 18.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 333.2 kB

  • Original 388.2 kB
  • After minification 301.3 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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 87.0 kB, which is 22% 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 333.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 18.1 MB
  • After minification 18.1 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. Scu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 243.7 kB
  • After minification 243.7 kB
  • After compression 202.6 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 41.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 138.5 kB
  • After minification 138.5 kB
  • After compression 92.4 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. Scu.edu.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.1 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (44%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

scu.edu.au accessibility score

94

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 have valid values

Best Practices

scu.edu.au best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scu.edu.au SEO score

84

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

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 Scu.edu.au 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 Scu.edu.au 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

scu.edu.au

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