Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

281 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

108 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stars.leeds.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 281 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stars.leeds.ac.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value17.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value35.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stars.leeds.ac.uk

281 ms

login.aspx

103 ms

login.aspx

477 ms

baseline.css

530 ms

General.js

269 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Stars.leeds.ac.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (621 ms) belongs to the original domain Stars.leeds.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 367.5 kB (77%)

Content Size

474.5 kB

After Optimization

107.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Stars.leeds.ac.uk main page is 474.5 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 366.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 6.4 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 4.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 52.7 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. Stars Leeds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 319.5 kB

  • Original 366.6 kB
  • After minification 246.5 kB
  • After compression 47.1 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 319.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 32.4 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Stars.leeds.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (53%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stars Leeds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stars.leeds.ac.uk accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

stars.leeds.ac.uk best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

stars.leeds.ac.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stars.leeds.ac.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Stars.leeds.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 Stars Leeds. 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: