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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

unimelb.edu.au

The University of Melbourne, Australia - Australia's best university and one of the world's finest

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

974 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

819 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unimelb.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 974 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

unimelb.edu.au performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,220 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unimelb.edu.au

974 ms

injection.js

2135 ms

style.css

2111 ms

application.new.min.css

1196 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Unimelb.edu.au, 26% (29 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 11% (12 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Unimelb.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (29%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Unimelb.edu.au main page is 5.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 74.9 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 13.6 kB, which is 15% 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 74.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Unimelb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 820.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 387.1 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 820.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 568.6 kB

  • Original 690.5 kB
  • After minification 674.2 kB
  • After compression 122.0 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. Unimelb.edu.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 568.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (46%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Unimelb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

unimelb.edu.au

unimelb.edu.au

974 ms

injection.js

injection.js

2135 ms

style.css

style.css

2111 ms

application.new.min.css

application.new.min.css

1196 ms

css

css

25 ms

header-banner.css

header-banner.css

726 ms

jsapi

jsapi

20 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

28 ms

application.fix.min.js

application.fix.min.js

1448 ms

advancedtracker.js

advancedtracker.js

718 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

13 ms

19 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

95 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

4 ms

default+en.I.js

default+en.I.js

4 ms

20160226-3d-artery.jpg

20160226-3d-artery.jpg

740 ms

20160212-collision.jpg

20160212-collision.jpg

968 ms

20160210-woman-in-pain.jpg

20160210-woman-in-pain.jpg

727 ms

20160208-great-leaders-masterclass.jpg

20160208-great-leaders-masterclass.jpg

1208 ms

yt-1-my-melbourne.jpg

yt-1-my-melbourne.jpg

1924 ms

community-engagement-large.jpg

community-engagement-large.jpg

977 ms

industry-large.jpg

industry-large.jpg

1837 ms

global-engagement-large.jpg

global-engagement-large.jpg

1705 ms

cultural-engagement-large.jpg

cultural-engagement-large.jpg

1932 ms

20140612-MUM-banner.jpg

20140612-MUM-banner.jpg

2182 ms

campus-tour-large.jpg

campus-tour-large.jpg

1940 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

84 ms

20160218-engaging-melbourne.jpg

20160218-engaging-melbourne.jpg

2179 ms

147807694

147807694

109 ms

unimelb-logo-lge.png

unimelb-logo-lge.png

968 ms

js

js

110 ms

zenbox.css

zenbox.css

54 ms

zenbox.js

zenbox.js

73 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

489 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

501 ms

icon-linkedin.png

icon-linkedin.png

501 ms

breadcrumb-right-dark.png

breadcrumb-right-dark.png

503 ms

search-icon.gif

search-icon.gif

511 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

1725 ms

section-bg-1-half280px.jpg

section-bg-1-half280px.jpg

2588 ms

wrapper-bg.png

wrapper-bg.png

2483 ms

search-icon-rev.png

search-icon-rev.png

2330 ms

go8-small.png

go8-small.png

2338 ms

home-brand-lge-blue.jpg

home-brand-lge-blue.jpg

3305 ms

search-icon-rev.svg

search-icon-rev.svg

2597 ms

OpenSans-Bold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Bold-webfont.woff

3297 ms

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

3316 ms

font

font

31 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

3445 ms

style_219.woff

style_219.woff

1452 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

22 ms

player.js

player.js

183 ms

player.css

player.css

125 ms

ga.js

ga.js

84 ms

vuid.min.js

vuid.min.js

155 ms

close_big.png

close_big.png

121 ms

loading.html

loading.html

110 ms

common.js

common.js

59 ms

map.js

map.js

91 ms

util.js

util.js

117 ms

marker.js

marker.js

90 ms

collect

collect

113 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

60 ms

load_large.gif

load_large.gif

59 ms

onion.js

onion.js

71 ms

openhand_8_8.cur

openhand_8_8.cur

164 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

158 ms

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

76 ms

stats.js

stats.js

56 ms

controls.js

controls.js

70 ms

proxy.html

proxy.html

85 ms

546576727.jpg

546576727.jpg

189 ms

css

css

114 ms

spotlight-poi.png

spotlight-poi.png

68 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

77 ms

vt

vt

48 ms

vt

vt

46 ms

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55 ms

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46 ms

vt

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82 ms

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81 ms

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81 ms

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79 ms

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69 ms

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80 ms

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83 ms

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81 ms

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82 ms

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82 ms

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83 ms

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89 ms

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90 ms

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89 ms

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87 ms

google4.png

google4.png

45 ms

mapcnt6.png

mapcnt6.png

43 ms

sv5.png

sv5.png

54 ms

tmapctrl.png

tmapctrl.png

37 ms

cb_scout5.png

cb_scout5.png

41 ms

tmapctrl4.png

tmapctrl4.png

40 ms

imgs8.png

imgs8.png

61 ms

google_white5.png

google_white5.png

62 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

225 ms

Gfeeds

Gfeeds

15 ms

Gfeeds

Gfeeds

19 ms

Gfeeds

Gfeeds

20 ms

Gfeeds

Gfeeds

22 ms

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Gfeeds

20 ms

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Gfeeds

17 ms

Gfeeds

Gfeeds

27 ms

Accessibility Review

unimelb.edu.au accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

unimelb.edu.au best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

unimelb.edu.au SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    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 Unimelb.edu.au 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 Unimelb.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

unimelb.edu.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Unimelb. 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: