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cite.soton.ac.uk

Institute for Learning Innovation and Development | University of Southampton

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

499 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

215 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cite.soton.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 499 ms and then it took 4.9 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

cite.soton.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cite.soton.ac.uk

499 ms

www.iliad.soton.ac.uk

489 ms

652 ms

uos.main.0.2.3.1.min.css

842 ms

uos.main.0.2.3.1.min.js

479 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cite.soton.ac.uk, 35% (12 requests) were made to Southampton.ac.uk and 21% (7 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (842 ms) relates to the external source Southampton.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 402.7 kB (42%)

Content Size

954.5 kB

After Optimization

551.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Cite.soton.ac.uk main page is 954.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 568.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 59.0 kB

  • Original 73.3 kB
  • After minification 72.2 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 59.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 238.1 kB
  • After minification 217.4 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. Cite Soton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 74.2 kB
  • After minification 73.2 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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 35.0 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 288.0 kB

  • Original 568.9 kB
  • After minification 568.8 kB
  • After compression 281.0 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. Cite.soton.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 288.0 kB or 51% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (57%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cite Soton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

cite.soton.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 Cite.soton.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 Cite.soton.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

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