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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

sems.qmul.ac.uk

QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

502 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

259 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sems.qmul.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 502 ms and then it took 2.5 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

sems.qmul.ac.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.138

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sems.qmul.ac.uk

502 ms

styles.css

82 ms

styles.css

163 ms

jquery.min.js

329 ms

jquery.cookie.js

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Sems.qmul.ac.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (582 ms) belongs to the original domain Sems.qmul.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

800.0 kB

After Optimization

601.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sems.qmul.ac.uk main page is 800.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 578.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 30.3 kB

  • Original 38.6 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 30.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 75.6 kB

  • Original 578.4 kB
  • After minification 502.8 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. Obviously, Sems QMUL needs image optimization as it can save up to 75.6 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 78.8 kB

  • Original 144.7 kB
  • After minification 144.7 kB
  • After compression 65.9 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 78.8 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. Sems.qmul.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.0 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (55%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sems QMUL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.sems.qmul.ac.uk

www.sems.qmul.ac.uk

502 ms

styles.css

styles.css

82 ms

styles.css

styles.css

163 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

329 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

244 ms

jquery-ui.min-slide-dialog.js

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331 ms

abstract.js

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243 ms

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247 ms

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247 ms

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324 ms

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search.js

328 ms

331 ms

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325 ms

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333 ms

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334 ms

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335 ms

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404 ms

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405 ms

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414 ms

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100 ms

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101 ms

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103 ms

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165 ms

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164 ms

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241 ms

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322 ms

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500 ms

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index.php

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555 ms

Accessibility Review

sems.qmul.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

sems.qmul.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

SEO Factors

sems.qmul.ac.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

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Impact

Issue

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 Sems.qmul.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 Sems.qmul.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

sems.qmul.ac.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Sems QMUL. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: