Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

585 ms

Resources Loaded

807 ms

Page Rendered

110 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recruit.ulster.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 585 ms and then it took 917 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

recruit.ulster.ac.uk performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

recruit.ulster.ac.uk

585 ms

bootstrap.css

196 ms

styles.css

188 ms

recruit_small.png

191 ms

facebook-dark.png

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Recruit.ulster.ac.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (585 ms) belongs to the original domain Recruit.ulster.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.5 kB (82%)

Content Size

161.3 kB

After Optimization

28.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Recruit.ulster.ac.uk main page is 161.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 148.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 575 B

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 283 B, which is 16% 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 1.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 6.8 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, Recruit Ulster needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 127.1 kB

  • Original 148.5 kB
  • After minification 121.8 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. Recruit.ulster.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 127.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recruit Ulster. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

recruit.ulster.ac.uk accessibility score

77

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

recruit.ulster.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

SEO Factors

recruit.ulster.ac.uk SEO score

77

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Recruit.ulster.ac.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Recruit.ulster.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Recruit Ulster. 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: