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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

cdi.manchester.ac.uk

Centre for Digital Development - The University of Manchester

Page Load Speed

23.5 sec in total

First Response

512 ms

Resources Loaded

22.8 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cdi Manchester content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cdi.manchester.ac.uk

The Centre for Development Informatics (CDI) is a multidisciplinary centre researching the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in socio-economic development.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cdi.manchester.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 512 ms and then it took 22.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

cdi.manchester.ac.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cdi.manchester.ac.uk

512 ms

www.cdd.manchester.ac.uk

615 ms

global-mhs.css

982 ms

left-menu-new.css

882 ms

mobile-menu.css

879 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cdi.manchester.ac.uk, 59% (24 requests) were made to Humassets.manchester.ac.uk and 12% (5 requests) were made to Assets.manchester.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Humassets.manchester.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

426.9 kB

After Optimization

362.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cdi.manchester.ac.uk main page is 426.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 229.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 6.1 kB, which is 17% 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 28.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 229.3 kB
  • After minification 224.3 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. Cdi Manchester images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 116.5 kB
  • After minification 116.5 kB
  • After compression 101.1 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 15.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 45.5 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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. Cdi.manchester.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.3 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (62%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cdi Manchester. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cdi.manchester.ac.uk

cdi.manchester.ac.uk

512 ms

www.cdd.manchester.ac.uk

www.cdd.manchester.ac.uk

615 ms

global-mhs.css

global-mhs.css

982 ms

left-menu-new.css

left-menu-new.css

882 ms

mobile-menu.css

mobile-menu.css

879 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

883 ms

slick.css

slick.css

883 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

20194 ms

modifications7.css

modifications7.css

969 ms

css

css

69 ms

Colours.css

Colours.css

967 ms

Custom2.css

Custom2.css

990 ms

cookie-banner-01.css

cookie-banner-01.css

991 ms

modernizr.custom.98819.js

modernizr.custom.98819.js

1055 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

49 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

60 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

1169 ms

iScroll.js

iScroll.js

1073 ms

global-plugins.js

global-plugins.js

1147 ms

slick.js

slick.js

1057 ms

imagelightbox.js

imagelightbox.js

1138 ms

imagelightbox-init.js

imagelightbox-init.js

1145 ms

global11.js

global11.js

1167 ms

mobile-menu.js

mobile-menu.js

1226 ms

custom.js

custom.js

1236 ms

f6c06aa6-cac4-4104-8b3d-70b088ddfff6.json

f6c06aa6-cac4-4104-8b3d-70b088ddfff6.json

152 ms

icon-menu.gif

icon-menu.gif

615 ms

CDI-Homepage-Banner-1400x400.jpg

CDI-Homepage-Banner-1400x400.jpg

1421 ms

icon-search-mobile.png

icon-search-mobile.png

619 ms

icon-youtube-50.png

icon-youtube-50.png

627 ms

icon-menu-white.png

icon-menu-white.png

626 ms

menu-arrow-down-open-grey.png

menu-arrow-down-open-grey.png

688 ms

logo-university-of-manchester.png

logo-university-of-manchester.png

306 ms

icon-home-white.png

icon-home-white.png

307 ms

icon-moreArrow-right.png

icon-moreArrow-right.png

307 ms

icons-discover.png

icons-discover.png

396 ms

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143 ms

location

location

41 ms

Accessibility Review

cdi.manchester.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

cdi.manchester.ac.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cdi.manchester.ac.uk SEO score

92

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Cdi.manchester.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 Cdi.manchester.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

cdi.manchester.ac.uk

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