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courses.southwales.ac.uk

Courses | University of South Wales

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

411 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Courses.southwales.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

courses.southwales.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

courses.southwales.ac.uk

1042 ms

main.min.css

403 ms

search3.css

1723 ms

search-header.css

1703 ms

jquery.js

606 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Courses.southwales.ac.uk, 15% (5 requests) were made to Search.southwales.ac.uk and 6% (2 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Search.southwales.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 796.3 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

792.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Courses.southwales.ac.uk main page is 1.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 681.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 127.2 kB

  • Original 145.4 kB
  • After minification 100.1 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 45.3 kB, which is 31% 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 127.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 87.7 kB

  • Original 681.4 kB
  • After minification 593.7 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. Obviously, Courses South Wales needs image optimization as it can save up to 87.7 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

-75%

Potential reduce by 445.7 kB

  • Original 597.2 kB
  • After minification 449.3 kB
  • After compression 151.5 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 445.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 135.8 kB

  • Original 164.8 kB
  • After minification 164.3 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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. Courses.southwales.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 135.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (63%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Courses South Wales. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

courses.southwales.ac.uk

courses.southwales.ac.uk

1042 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

403 ms

search3.css

search3.css

1723 ms

search-header.css

search-header.css

1703 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

606 ms

jquery_ujs.js

jquery_ujs.js

248 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

248 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

169 ms

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

232 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.js

jquery.hoverIntent.js

248 ms

jquery.livequery.js

jquery.livequery.js

313 ms

application.js

application.js

327 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

1725 ms

jquery.tmpl.min.js

jquery.tmpl.min.js

1553 ms

funnelback-completion.js

funnelback-completion.js

1551 ms

fnlbk-comp-tmp.js

fnlbk-comp-tmp.js

1553 ms

print.min.css

print.min.css

82 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

15 ms

usw-logo-small.png

usw-logo-small.png

108 ms

WelshQualityMark.png

WelshQualityMark.png

502 ms

usw-logo.png

usw-logo.png

191 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

71 ms

course-header.jpg

course-header.jpg

1044 ms

84 ms

84 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

242 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

161 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

47 ms

socialTracking.js

socialTracking.js

234 ms

bat.js

bat.js

47 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

collect

collect

60 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

45 ms

log

log

351 ms

SEO Factors

courses.southwales.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 Courses.southwales.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 Courses.southwales.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

courses.southwales.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Courses South Wales. 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: