Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

dundee.ac.uk

University of Dundee, UK, Scotland, United Kingdom

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

912 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dundee.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec 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

dundee.ac.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dundee.ac.uk

1318 ms

www.dundee.ac.uk

862 ms

gtm.js

64 ms

lift.js

19 ms

css_HpFIxjGk-ZRyd7uSFVmv1klxE1wugudQA3KX3wT8xII.css

286 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Dundee.ac.uk, 56% (20 requests) were made to Cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk and 8% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Dundee.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.6 kB (1%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

6.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Dundee.ac.uk main page is 6.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 112.7 kB
  • After minification 106.1 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 83.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Dundee images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 123 B

  • Original 301.9 kB
  • After minification 301.9 kB
  • After compression 301.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 301 B

  • Original 30.6 kB
  • After minification 30.6 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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. Dundee.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (23%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dundee. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dundee.ac.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

dundee.ac.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dundee.ac.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Dundee.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 Dundee.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 Dundee. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: