Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

collegewebsites.ac.uk

College Websites

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

826 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegewebsites.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 5.8 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

collegewebsites.ac.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.collegewebsites.ac.uk

1122 ms

content.css

161 ms

sc_c2c05bbdb7a6b899654b5004989862b0.css

343 ms

bootstrap.min.css

485 ms

joomla-fontawesome.min.css

408 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Collegewebsites.ac.uk, 11% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to A5.mylivechat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Collegewebsites.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 900.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Collegewebsites.ac.uk main page is 4.3 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. 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. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 133.9 kB

  • Original 161.2 kB
  • After minification 160.5 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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 133.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 230.5 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. College Websites images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 232.2 kB

  • Original 919.5 kB
  • After minification 913.7 kB
  • After compression 687.3 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 232.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 303.6 kB

  • Original 364.1 kB
  • After minification 337.8 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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. Collegewebsites.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 303.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (36%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Websites. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

collegewebsites.ac.uk accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

collegewebsites.ac.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

collegewebsites.ac.uk SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Collegewebsites.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 Collegewebsites.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 data is detected on the main page of College Websites. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: