Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

online.abdn.ac.uk

Online Learning | Study Here | The University of Aberdeen

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

278 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

536 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Online.abdn.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 278 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

online.abdn.ac.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,700 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.209

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

online.abdn.ac.uk

278 ms

563 ms

abdn-design-system-site.css

1211 ms

funnelback.autocompletion-2.6.0.css

885 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

17 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 Online.abdn.ac.uk, 42% (26 requests) were made to Abdn.ac.uk and 10% (6 requests) were made to Bot.futr.ai. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Abdn.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (52%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Online.abdn.ac.uk main page is 3.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 46.7 kB

  • Original 65.6 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 12.6 kB, which is 19% 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 46.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 868.7 kB
  • After minification 794.1 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. Online Abdn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 366.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 745.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 366.5 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 66.5 kB
  • After compression 61.8 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. Online.abdn.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 95% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (38%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Online Abdn. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

online.abdn.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

online.abdn.ac.uk best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

online.abdn.ac.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Online.abdn.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 Online.abdn.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 Online Abdn. 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: