Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

ukcisa.org.uk

UKCISA - international student advice and guidance - Studying in the UK?

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

449 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ukcisa.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 3.7 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

ukcisa.org.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukcisa.org.uk

277 ms

www.ukcisa.org.uk

1503 ms

gtm.js

91 ms

bootstrap.min.css

44 ms

font-awesome.min.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Ukcisa.org.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Ukcisa.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 598.8 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

616.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Ukcisa.org.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 632.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 191.2 kB

  • Original 249.4 kB
  • After minification 135.0 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 114.5 kB, which is 46% 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 191.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 234.4 kB
  • After minification 230.6 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. UKCISA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 362.8 kB

  • Original 632.8 kB
  • After minification 622.3 kB
  • After compression 270.0 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 362.8 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 98.5 kB
  • After minification 96.1 kB
  • After compression 57.5 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. Ukcisa.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.0 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (75%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UKCISA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ukcisa.org.uk accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

ukcisa.org.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

ukcisa.org.uk SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Ukcisa.org.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 Ukcisa.org.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 UKCISA. 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: