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De UGent is een van de grootste universiteiten in het Nederlandse taalgebied en profileert zich als open, sociaal geëngageerd en pluralistisch.
Visit ugent.beWe analyzed Ugent.be page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.
ugent.be performance score
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Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Ugent.be, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Gtrk.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Ugent.be.
Page size can be reduced by 248.8 kB (57%)
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In fact, the total size of Ugent.be main page is 440.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 297.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 26.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.9 kB, which is 23% 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 26.2 kB or 75% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 3.6 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. U Gent images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 219.0 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 219.0 kB or 74% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (77%)
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The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of U Gent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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ugent.be accessibility score
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
Links do not have a discernible name
ugent.be best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
Impact
Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
ugent.be SEO score
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
Impact
Issue
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
NL
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UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ugent.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Dutch is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ugent.be 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.
ugent.be
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of U Gent. 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: