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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

university.which.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

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About Website

Visit university.which.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date University Which content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about university.which.co.uk

Formerly part of the Which? University website. The Uni Guide is the free and independent way to search and compare UK degree courses and universities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed University.which.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

university.which.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,800 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original University.which.co.uk, 49% (32 requests) were made to Dtmw9u23bb9ya.cloudfront.net and 8% (5 requests) were made to Wca-assets-which-prod-euwest1.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (589 ms) relates to the external source Origin.university.which.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (63%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

946.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of University.which.co.uk main page is 2.6 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. CSS take 920.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 154.0 kB

  • Original 177.3 kB
  • After minification 144.3 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 32.9 kB, which is 19% 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 154.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 568.7 kB
  • After minification 553.3 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. University Which images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 636.0 kB

  • Original 890.2 kB
  • After minification 890.1 kB
  • After compression 254.2 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 636.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 805.6 kB

  • Original 920.9 kB
  • After minification 916.2 kB
  • After compression 115.3 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. University.which.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 805.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (37%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of University Which. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

university.which.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

university.which.co.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

university.which.co.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

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 University.which.co.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 University.which.co.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

university.which.co.uk

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