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materials.ac.uk

UK Centre for Materials Education • Materials Science • Higher Education Academy

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

493 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Materials.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 493 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

materials.ac.uk

493 ms

homestyle.css

166 ms

ga.js

31 ms

banner8.jpg

165 ms

__utm.gif

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Materials.ac.uk, 25% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (493 ms) belongs to the original domain Materials.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.2 kB (34%)

Content Size

187.3 kB

After Optimization

124.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Materials.ac.uk main page is 187.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 150.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 9.5 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. 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 7.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 150.1 kB
  • After minification 102.8 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. Obviously, Materials needs image optimization as it can save up to 47.3 kB or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 4.9 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Materials.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Materials. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

materials.ac.uk

materials.ac.uk

493 ms

homestyle.css

homestyle.css

166 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

banner8.jpg

banner8.jpg

165 ms

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14 ms

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21 ms

nsp2012.png

nsp2012.png

164 ms

teachEng.jpg

teachEng.jpg

409 ms

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matter_logo_small_no_tagline.gif

165 ms

UKCME10years.jpg

UKCME10years.jpg

447 ms

coreMFeature.jpg

coreMFeature.jpg

409 ms

matsClassroomfeature.jpg

matsClassroomfeature.jpg

232 ms

SEO Factors

materials.ac.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Materials.ac.uk 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 Materials.ac.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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