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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

researchconnect.co.uk

Access Specialist Research Funding For Research Organisations

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

240 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

598 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Researchconnect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 240 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

researchconnect.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

researchconnect.co.uk

240 ms

www.myresearchconnect.com

573 ms

layerslider.css

248 ms

style.min.css

339 ms

ivory-search.min.css

411 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Researchconnect.co.uk, 69% (86 requests) were made to Myresearchconnect.com and 16% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Myresearchconnect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 696.7 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

465.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Researchconnect.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 80% 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. CSS take 570.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 190.1 kB

  • Original 222.2 kB
  • After minification 219.3 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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 190.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 11.4 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. Research Connect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 143.3 kB

  • Original 358.2 kB
  • After minification 358.1 kB
  • After compression 214.9 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 143.3 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 363.3 kB

  • Original 570.1 kB
  • After minification 569.9 kB
  • After compression 206.8 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. Researchconnect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 363.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (90%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Research Connect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 86 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

researchconnect.co.uk

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Accessibility Review

researchconnect.co.uk accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

researchconnect.co.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

researchconnect.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Researchconnect.co.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 Researchconnect.co.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

researchconnect.co.uk

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