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ull.ac.uk

University of London

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

600 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ull.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.8 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

ull.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ull.ac.uk

1247 ms

senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

531 ms

style.css

303 ms

shortcodes.css

153 ms

responsive-slider.css

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ull.ac.uk, 76% (47 requests) were made to Senatehouselibrary.ac.uk and 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ull.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 357.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ull.ac.uk main page is 2.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 50.5 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 41.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 1.9 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. Ull images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 188.6 kB

  • Original 283.1 kB
  • After minification 253.2 kB
  • After compression 94.5 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 188.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 112.0 kB

  • Original 130.8 kB
  • After minification 102.1 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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. Ull.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (68%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ull. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ull.ac.uk SEO score

0

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 Ull.ac.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 Ull.ac.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 Ull. 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: