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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

falmouth.ac.uk

Welcome to Falmouth University

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

falmouth.ac.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit falmouth.ac.uk now to see the best up-to-date Falmouth content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about falmouth.ac.uk

Explore our creative community, world-class facilities, industry-practicing lecturers and location like no other. This is Falmouth.

Visit falmouth.ac.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Falmouth.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

falmouth.ac.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,750 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

falmouth.ac.uk

200 ms

www.falmouth.ac.uk

141 ms

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34 ms

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322 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Falmouth.ac.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (954 ms) belongs to the original domain Falmouth.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Falmouth.ac.uk main page is 3.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 163.3 kB

  • Original 186.7 kB
  • After minification 186.7 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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 163.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Falmouth images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (13%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

65

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Falmouth. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

falmouth.ac.uk

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141 ms

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Accessibility Review

falmouth.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

falmouth.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

falmouth.ac.uk SEO score

93

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 Falmouth.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 Falmouth.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

falmouth.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Falmouth. 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: