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careercenter.ust.hk

Career Center | The HKUST

Page Load Speed

17.8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

15.9 sec

Page Rendered

390 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Careercenter.ust.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 16.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

careercenter.ust.hk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

careercenter.ust.hk

1544 ms

home.php

850 ms

css

56 ms

css

68 ms

job_post.css

652 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Careercenter.ust.hk, 75% (47 requests) were made to Career.ust.hk and 17% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.2 sec) relates to the external source Career.ust.hk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Careercenter.ust.hk main page is 3.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 27.1 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 25.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 112.9 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Career Center Ust images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 377.5 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 1.1 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

  • Original 65.8 kB
  • After minification 47.5 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. Careercenter.ust.hk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (54%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Career Center Ust. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

careercenter.ust.hk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Careercenter.ust.hk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Careercenter.ust.hk 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 Career Center Ust. 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: