Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

phdlife.warwick.ac.uk

PhDLife Blog – Sharing PhD experiences across the University of Warwick and beyond

Page Load Speed

82.9 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

66.5 sec

Page Rendered

16.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Phdlife.warwick.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 82.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 18 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

phdlife.warwick.ac.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

phdlife.warwick.ac.uk

264 ms

phdlife.warwick.ac.uk

916 ms

webfont.js

3484 ms

4430 ms

css

4778 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Phdlife.warwick.ac.uk, 20% (19 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 16% (15 requests) were made to Doctorallife.files.wordpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (21.3 sec) relates to the external source Doctorallife.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 531.1 kB (62%)

Content Size

862.9 kB

After Optimization

331.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Phdlife.warwick.ac.uk main page is 862.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 549.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 97.7 kB

  • Original 123.0 kB
  • After minification 119.8 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. 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 97.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 169.9 kB
  • After minification 167.5 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. PhD Life Warwick images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 421.4 kB

  • Original 549.3 kB
  • After minification 412.9 kB
  • After compression 127.9 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 421.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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. Phdlife.warwick.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (76%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PhD Life Warwick. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

phdlife.warwick.ac.uk accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

phdlife.warwick.ac.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

phdlife.warwick.ac.uk SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Phdlife.warwick.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 Phdlife.warwick.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 data is detected on the main page of PhD Life Warwick. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: