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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

mace.manchester.ac.uk

Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering - The University of Manchester

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

357 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

410 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mace.manchester.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 357 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mace.manchester.ac.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mace.manchester.ac.uk

357 ms

www.mace.manchester.ac.uk

738 ms

maze-universal-loader.js

28 ms

global-mhs-v3.css

468 ms

left-menu-new.css

384 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Mace.manchester.ac.uk, 53% (29 requests) were made to Webassets.manchester.ac.uk and 15% (8 requests) were made to Content.presspage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (738 ms) belongs to the original domain Mace.manchester.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

817.0 kB

After Optimization

681.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mace.manchester.ac.uk main page is 817.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 568.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 74.0 kB
  • After minification 61.8 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.2 kB, which is 16% 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 61.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 568.4 kB
  • After minification 529.7 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. Mace Manchester images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 126.5 kB
  • After minification 126.5 kB
  • After compression 107.8 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 18.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 48.1 kB
  • After minification 48.1 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Mace.manchester.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.5 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (57%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mace 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 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mace.manchester.ac.uk

mace.manchester.ac.uk

357 ms

www.mace.manchester.ac.uk

www.mace.manchester.ac.uk

738 ms

maze-universal-loader.js

maze-universal-loader.js

28 ms

global-mhs-v3.css

global-mhs-v3.css

468 ms

left-menu-new.css

left-menu-new.css

384 ms

mobile-menu.css

mobile-menu.css

392 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

402 ms

slick.css

slick.css

401 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

403 ms

css

css

45 ms

modifications13.css

modifications13.css

472 ms

Colours.css

Colours.css

477 ms

footer_logo.css

footer_logo.css

485 ms

Custom2.css

Custom2.css

489 ms

cookie-banner-01.css

cookie-banner-01.css

491 ms

modernizr-3.7.0-custom-02.min.js

modernizr-3.7.0-custom-02.min.js

388 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

44 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

58 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

477 ms

jquery-migrate-3.3.2.js

jquery-migrate-3.3.2.js

397 ms

iScroll.js

iScroll.js

598 ms

global-plugins.js

global-plugins.js

648 ms

slick.js

slick.js

599 ms

imagelightbox.js

imagelightbox.js

600 ms

imagelightbox-init.js

imagelightbox-init.js

600 ms

global16.js

global16.js

601 ms

mobile-menu.js

mobile-menu.js

639 ms

custom.js

custom.js

664 ms

mega-menu-keyboard-01.min.js

mega-menu-keyboard-01.min.js

398 ms

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

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

87 ms

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701 ms

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71 ms

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72 ms

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74 ms

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72 ms

icon-menu-25x20.gif

icon-menu-25x20.gif

143 ms

logo-university-of-manchester.png

logo-university-of-manchester.png

141 ms

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144 ms

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214 ms

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215 ms

video-play-button.png

video-play-button.png

226 ms

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225 ms

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226 ms

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226 ms

icon-menu-white.png

icon-menu-white.png

137 ms

menu-arrow-down-open-grey.png

menu-arrow-down-open-grey.png

138 ms

icons-discover.png

icons-discover.png

394 ms

location

location

85 ms

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67 ms

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72 ms

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76 ms

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76 ms

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122 ms

Accessibility Review

mace.manchester.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

mace.manchester.ac.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mace.manchester.ac.uk SEO score

85

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

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 Mace.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 Mace.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

mace.manchester.ac.uk

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