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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

universityherald.com

University Herald

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

769 ms

Page Rendered

971 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Universityherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

universityherald.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.169

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

universityherald.com

97 ms

www.universityherald.com

178 ms

stub

70 ms

cmp

74 ms

font.css

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Universityherald.com, 57% (38 requests) were made to 1540443815.rsc.cdn77.org and 7% (5 requests) were made to 1253820835.rsc.cdn77.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (283 ms) relates to the external source 1540443815.rsc.cdn77.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 713.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Universityherald.com main page is 2.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 74.9 kB

  • Original 99.4 kB
  • After minification 91.3 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 74.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 611.2 kB

  • Original 2.5 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. Obviously, University Herald needs image optimization as it can save up to 611.2 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 212.0 kB
  • After minification 211.9 kB
  • After compression 188.5 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 23.5 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 100.8 kB
  • After minification 100.8 kB
  • After compression 96.8 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. Universityherald.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (63%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of University Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

universityherald.com

universityherald.com

97 ms

www.universityherald.com

www.universityherald.com

178 ms

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70 ms

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74 ms

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font.css

151 ms

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162 ms

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165 ms

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Accessibility Review

universityherald.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

universityherald.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

universityherald.com SEO score

98

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

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 Universityherald.com 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 Universityherald.com 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

universityherald.com

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