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northglasgowcollege.ac.uk

Glasgow Kelvin College - Glasgow Based Further Education College

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

493 ms

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About Website

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Glasgow Kelvin College is one of Glasgow’s three regional further education colleges.  Formed by the merger of John Wheatley, North Glasgow and Stow colleges

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northglasgowcollege.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northglasgowcollege.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

northglasgowcollege.ac.uk

2489 ms

www.glasgowkelvin.ac.uk

3875 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

520 ms

tfg_style.css

202 ms

cli-style.css

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Northglasgowcollege.ac.uk, 59% (81 requests) were made to Glasgowkelvin.ac.uk and 18% (25 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) relates to the external source Glasgowkelvin.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 994.4 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Northglasgowcollege.ac.uk main page is 2.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 77.3 kB

  • Original 96.2 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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. 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 77.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. North Glasgow College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 587.3 kB

  • Original 799.6 kB
  • After minification 709.6 kB
  • After compression 212.3 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 587.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 314.8 kB

  • Original 361.9 kB
  • After minification 303.3 kB
  • After compression 47.1 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. Northglasgowcollege.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 314.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (58%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Glasgow College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

northglasgowcollege.ac.uk SEO score

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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 Northglasgowcollege.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 Northglasgowcollege.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 North Glasgow College. 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: