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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

grad-central.co.uk

Grad Central | West Midlands Graduate Jobs and Recruitment

Page Load Speed

22.2 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

21.8 sec

Page Rendered

116 ms

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About Website

Visit grad-central.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Grad Central content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about grad-central.co.uk

Graduate Jobs in West Midlands - GradCentral specialises in placing graduates in jobs that match their skills. We offer a range of Jobs in West Midlands for graduates in several disciplines.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grad-central.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 272 ms and then it took 21.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 11 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

grad-central.co.uk performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.06

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

grad-central.co.uk

272 ms

grad-central.co.uk

443 ms

default_20131008.css

402 ms

home.css

403 ms

thickbox.js

404 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Grad-central.co.uk, 17% (11 requests) were made to Gradcentral.cloudsites.4matnetworks.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Feed.mikle.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Gradcentral.cloudsites.4matnetworks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.5 kB (43%)

Content Size

202.4 kB

After Optimization

115.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Grad-central.co.uk main page is 202.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 76.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 12.9 kB, which is 23% 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 46.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 139 B

  • Original 68.8 kB
  • After minification 68.7 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. Grad Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 75.1 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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 39.5 kB or 51% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (51%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grad Central. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

grad-central.co.uk

grad-central.co.uk

272 ms

grad-central.co.uk

grad-central.co.uk

443 ms

default_20131008.css

default_20131008.css

402 ms

home.css

home.css

403 ms

thickbox.js

thickbox.js

404 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

416 ms

sifr.js

sifr.js

26 ms

47372.js

47372.js

74 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

136 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

42 ms

pngfix.js

pngfix.js

53 ms

global.js.axd

global.js.axd

444 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

276 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

395 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

502 ms

rssmikle.js

rssmikle.js

209 ms

reset.css

reset.css

391 ms

layout.css

layout.css

381 ms

base.css

base.css

411 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

413 ms

forms.css

forms.css

56 ms

bg-top.jpg

bg-top.jpg

20271 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

159 ms

grad-central-graduate-recruitment.gif

grad-central-graduate-recruitment.gif

409 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

381 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

414 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

435 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

115 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

213 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

265 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

325 ms

login-home.png

login-home.png

275 ms

AjaxLoading.gif

AjaxLoading.gif

287 ms

matchinggraduates.gif

matchinggraduates.gif

298 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

308 ms

inv.gif

inv.gif

317 ms

register.gif

register.gif

331 ms

getjobsent.gif

getjobsent.gif

337 ms

emplyerrecruitmentservices.gif

emplyerrecruitmentservices.gif

340 ms

advertise.jpg

advertise.jpg

349 ms

graduate-rec-news.gif

graduate-rec-news.gif

355 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

462 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

461 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

480 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

788 ms

File.aspx

File.aspx

542 ms

job-by-sector-location.gif

job-by-sector-location.gif

830 ms

latestgradjobs.gif

latestgradjobs.gif

471 ms

funded-by-advantage.gif

funded-by-advantage.gif

475 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

20266 ms

bg-job-search.jpg

bg-job-search.jpg

20249 ms

postajobforfree.png

postajobforfree.png

20249 ms

bgr-employerstext.gif

bgr-employerstext.gif

20240 ms

bg-content-home.jpg

bg-content-home.jpg

20239 ms

bgr_blog_home_wide.gif

bgr_blog_home_wide.gif

20240 ms

28 ms

bg-featuredemployer.png

bg-featuredemployer.png

20227 ms

bgr-hotjob.png

bgr-hotjob.png

20225 ms

bgr-latestJobs.gif

bgr-latestJobs.gif

20221 ms

bg-sidebar-title.gif

bg-sidebar-title.gif

20221 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

18 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

34 ms

print.css

print.css

17 ms

Accessibility Review

grad-central.co.uk accessibility score

59

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

grad-central.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

grad-central.co.uk SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Grad-central.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Grad-central.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

grad-central.co.uk

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