Report Summary

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

838 ms

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About Website

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Based at Thornton Science Park, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Chester is located in a major research and innovation hub for the North West. 

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thorntonresearch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 6 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

thorntonresearch.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thorntonresearch.org

261 ms

research.fse.network

2930 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

251 ms

style.min.css

341 ms

style.min.css

360 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thorntonresearch.org, 79% (19 requests) were made to Research.fse.network and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source Research.fse.network.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

513.4 kB

After Optimization

446.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Thorntonresearch.org main page is 513.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 326.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 25.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 326.3 kB
  • After minification 317.9 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. Thorntonresearch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 109.3 kB
  • After compression 76.8 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 32.5 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 136 B

  • Original 43.7 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Thorntonresearch.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (59%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thorntonresearch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thorntonresearch.org SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thorntonresearch.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Thorntonresearch.org 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 data is detected on the main page of Thorntonresearch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: