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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

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Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

341 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sccb.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 341 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sccb.ac.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sccb.ac.uk

341 ms

www.sccb.ac.uk

2491 ms

k2.fonts.css

87 ms

k2.css

174 ms

widgetkit-37ee2aaf.css

249 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Sccb.ac.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Sccb.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (26%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sccb.ac.uk main page is 7.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 32.6 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. 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 25.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 157.6 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Sccb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 473.5 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 1.1 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 583.7 kB

  • Original 683.6 kB
  • After minification 637.2 kB
  • After compression 99.9 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. Sccb.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 583.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (43%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sccb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sccb.ac.uk

sccb.ac.uk

341 ms

www.sccb.ac.uk

www.sccb.ac.uk

2491 ms

k2.fonts.css

k2.fonts.css

87 ms

k2.css

k2.css

174 ms

widgetkit-37ee2aaf.css

widgetkit-37ee2aaf.css

249 ms

style.css

style.css

257 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

26 ms

template.css

template.css

340 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

354 ms

k2.frontend.js

k2.frontend.js

258 ms

caption.js

caption.js

260 ms

widgetkit-6c9d8c9c.js

widgetkit-6c9d8c9c.js

330 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

419 ms

core.js

core.js

369 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

524 ms

engine.js

engine.js

412 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

25 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

31 ms

what-input.min.js

what-input.min.js

437 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

438 ms

app.js

app.js

437 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

38 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

129 ms

mediaelement-and-player.js

mediaelement-and-player.js

142 ms

spotlight.js

spotlight.js

141 ms

SCCB-BC-logos.jpg

SCCB-BC-logos.jpg

115 ms

Web-banner-Enrol-Now.jpg

Web-banner-Enrol-Now.jpg

253 ms

Free-travel-web-banner.jpg

Free-travel-web-banner.jpg

191 ms

JD1197-A-Level-results-Joint-site.jpg

JD1197-A-Level-results-Joint-site.jpg

350 ms

Web-banner-HE.jpg

Web-banner-HE.jpg

191 ms

celta_course_biirmingham.jpg

celta_course_biirmingham.jpg

331 ms

accounting_courses_fast_track_level_2.jpg

accounting_courses_fast_track_level_2.jpg

289 ms

medical_administrators_course.jpg

medical_administrators_course.jpg

361 ms

nav.png

nav.png

268 ms

Study-tile.jpg

Study-tile.jpg

346 ms

Work-tile.jpg

Work-tile.jpg

363 ms

Enjoy-tile.jpg

Enjoy-tile.jpg

378 ms

280x280-Enrol.jpg

280x280-Enrol.jpg

417 ms

280x280-Our-campuses.jpg

280x280-Our-campuses.jpg

434 ms

280x280-Sport-courses.jpg

280x280-Sport-courses.jpg

437 ms

280x280-Literature.jpg

280x280-Literature.jpg

450 ms

University-Level-tile.jpg

University-Level-tile.jpg

447 ms

280x280-TEF.jpg

280x280-TEF.jpg

466 ms

Accreditation-logos.jpg

Accreditation-logos.jpg

503 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

124 ms

75 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

106 ms

recorder.js

recorder.js

179 ms

slideshow.js

slideshow.js

430 ms

close.png

close.png

439 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

439 ms

proxima_nova_regular-webfont.woff

proxima_nova_regular-webfont.woff

432 ms

proxima_nova_bold-webfont.woff

proxima_nova_bold-webfont.woff

450 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

14 ms

1x1t.gif

1x1t.gif

78 ms

453598661491921

453598661491921

28 ms

64 ms

27 ms

collect

collect

55 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

12 ms

Accessibility Review

sccb.ac.uk accessibility score

96

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.

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

sccb.ac.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sccb.ac.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Sccb.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 Sccb.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

sccb.ac.uk

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