Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

home.bournemouth.ac.uk

Bournemouth University

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

732 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Home.bournemouth.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 3.6 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

home.bournemouth.ac.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,390 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.bournemouth.ac.uk

259 ms

home.bournemouth.ac.uk

358 ms

www1.bournemouth.ac.uk

354 ms

css_lQaZfjVpwP_oGNqdtWCSpJT1EMqXdMiU84ekLLxQnc4.css

84 ms

css_zRvMAI_bJax8k2xtXGOIpA_1MY-GtcZ6Usnh2bW1Q84.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Home.bournemouth.ac.uk, 72% (43 requests) were made to Www1.bournemouth.ac.uk and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (875 ms) relates to the external source Www1.bournemouth.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 728.1 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Home.bournemouth.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 52.6 kB

  • Original 65.5 kB
  • After minification 62.4 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 52.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 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. Home Bournemouth images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 473.3 kB

  • Original 615.8 kB
  • After minification 429.7 kB
  • After compression 142.5 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 473.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 166.4 kB

  • Original 197.6 kB
  • After minification 197.2 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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. Home.bournemouth.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 166.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (38%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Bournemouth. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

home.bournemouth.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

home.bournemouth.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

home.bournemouth.ac.uk SEO score

99

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 Home.bournemouth.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 Home.bournemouth.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 Home Bournemouth. 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: