Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% 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

portal.falmouth.ac.uk

Staff and Student Portal | Falmouth University

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

644 ms

Resources Loaded

834 ms

Page Rendered

104 ms

portal.falmouth.ac.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Portal.falmouth.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 644 ms and then it took 938 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

portal.falmouth.ac.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.335

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

portal.falmouth.ac.uk

644 ms

Style.css

165 ms

falmouth-university-logo.png

103 ms

padlock.png

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Portal.falmouth.ac.uk, 25% (1 request) were made to Falmouth.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (644 ms) belongs to the original domain Portal.falmouth.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.1 kB (35%)

Content Size

17.6 kB

After Optimization

11.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Portal.falmouth.ac.uk main page is 17.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 913 B, which is 15% 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 4.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3 B

  • Original 9.3 kB
  • After minification 9.3 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. Portal Falmouth images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 734 B

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. Portal.falmouth.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Portal Falmouth. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

portal.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

portal.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

portal.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 Portal.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 Portal.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

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