Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

warwick.ac.uk

Welcome to the University of Warwick

Page Load Speed

39.4 sec in total

First Response

901 ms

Resources Loaded

13.2 sec

Page Rendered

25.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Warwick.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 901 ms and then it took 38.5 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.

Performance Metrics

warwick.ac.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www2.warwick.ac.uk

901 ms

css

282 ms

pack7.css.247911165480

1634 ms

site.css.151275462237

1384 ms

id7scripts.js.295946389148

2144 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Warwick.ac.uk, 20% (6 requests) were made to D36jn9qou1tztq.cloudfront.net and 13% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source Www2.warwick.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (16%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Warwick.ac.uk main page is 8.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 28.5 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 4.0 kB, which is 14% 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 22.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 498.7 kB

  • Original 7.1 MB
  • After minification 6.6 MB

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. Warwick images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 313.0 kB

  • Original 484.5 kB
  • After minification 478.4 kB
  • After compression 171.5 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 313.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 455.4 kB

  • Original 536.2 kB
  • After minification 520.8 kB
  • After compression 80.8 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. Warwick.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 455.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (28%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

warwick.ac.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

warwick.ac.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

warwick.ac.uk SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 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 Warwick.ac.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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