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weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,360 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.788

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

www.liverpool.ac.uk

820 ms

cys2lok.js

50 ms

master-2.css

182 ms

home-page.css

297 ms

jquery.mmenu.all.css

383 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Liv.ac.uk, 19% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (5 requests) were made to Cachednewsfeeds.liverpool.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (831 ms) relates to the external source Liverpool.ac.uk.

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Liv.ac.uk main page is 2.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

Original 76.9 kB
After minification 71.4 kB
After compression 15.2 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 61.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 249.2 kB

Original 2.0 MB
After minification 1.7 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. Obviously, Liv needs image optimization as it can save up to 249.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 229.8 kB

Original 395.8 kB
After minification 332.1 kB
After compression 166.0 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 229.8 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

Original 88.1 kB
After minification 88.0 kB
After compression 72.8 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. Liv.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Liv. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Liv.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 Liv.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

liv.ac.uk

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

The University of Liverpool

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)