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beta.nusconnect.org.uk

NUS Connect | The membership website for Students' Unions

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

367 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

383 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Beta NUS Connect content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about beta.nusconnect.org.uk

NUS Connect is a specialist resource and community site, developed for the benefit of NUS member unions holding materials for student officers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beta.nusconnect.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 367 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beta.nusconnect.org.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

beta.nusconnect.org.uk

367 ms

www.nusconnect.org.uk

481 ms

www.nusconnect.org.uk

330 ms

analytics.js

9 ms

application_student_view-ea7d2e257c75aa2d6c1247c0dcadb1e176bce046b6f5ad4fea7fd8adb9253b9f.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Beta.nusconnect.org.uk, 50% (56 requests) were made to S3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com and 38% (42 requests) were made to D2wcds7obmglv2.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source S3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (42%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Beta.nusconnect.org.uk main page is 3.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 112.7 kB

  • Original 131.5 kB
  • After minification 110.4 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 21.1 kB, which is 16% 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 112.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Beta NUS Connect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 813.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 332.9 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 813.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 405.3 kB

  • Original 473.7 kB
  • After minification 471.9 kB
  • After compression 68.4 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. Beta.nusconnect.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 405.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (29%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

75

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beta NUS Connect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

beta.nusconnect.org.uk SEO score

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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 Beta.nusconnect.org.uk 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 Beta.nusconnect.org.uk 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Beta NUS Connect. 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: