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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

unsw.edu

UNSW Sydney | One of the best universities in Australia

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

668 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unsw.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 668 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

unsw.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,570 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unsw.edu

668 ms

www.unsw.edu.au

249 ms

clientlib-common-base.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

24 ms

clientlib-site.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

86 ms

clientlib-common-components.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Unsw.edu, 96% (54 requests) were made to Unsw.edu.au and 2% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (668 ms) belongs to the original domain Unsw.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

776.5 kB

After Optimization

631.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Unsw.edu main page is 776.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 515.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 117.0 kB

  • Original 131.4 kB
  • After minification 107.6 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 23.8 kB, which is 18% 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 117.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 515.9 kB
  • After minification 487.6 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. UNSW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 129.2 kB
  • After minification 129.2 kB
  • After compression 129.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (31%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UNSW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

unsw.edu

unsw.edu

668 ms

www.unsw.edu.au

www.unsw.edu.au

249 ms

clientlib-common-base.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

clientlib-common-base.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

24 ms

clientlib-site.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

clientlib-site.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

86 ms

clientlib-common-components.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

clientlib-common-components.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

91 ms

clientlib-ui-frontend.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

clientlib-ui-frontend.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.css

90 ms

launch-5f04fe5ed56c.min.js

launch-5f04fe5ed56c.min.js

147 ms

unsw_0.png

unsw_0.png

110 ms

envelope.svg

envelope.svg

110 ms

clientlib-analytics.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

clientlib-analytics.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

110 ms

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113 ms

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108 ms

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110 ms

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browsercheck.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

125 ms

sanitize-html.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

sanitize-html.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

127 ms

qrcode.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

qrcode.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

126 ms

clientlib-common-base.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

clientlib-common-base.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

139 ms

clientlib-ui-frontend.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

clientlib-ui-frontend.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

160 ms

clientlib-common-components.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

clientlib-common-components.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

162 ms

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clientlib-shared.min.6.2.0.2024_0208_125730_0003721809.js

161 ms

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245 ms

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246 ms

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256 ms

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245 ms

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255 ms

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256 ms

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260 ms

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arrow-up.svg

259 ms

UNSW_logo_white.png

UNSW_logo_white.png

261 ms

logo_partners_groupofeight.png

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261 ms

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184 ms

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162 ms

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163 ms

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59 ms

Accessibility Review

unsw.edu accessibility score

92

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 are not valid or misspelled

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

unsw.edu 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

SEO Factors

unsw.edu SEO score

85

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 Unsw.edu 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 Unsw.edu 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

unsw.edu

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