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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

westmidsutc.co.uk

Home - Thomas Telford UTC

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

968 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

924 ms

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Thomas Telford UTC - Thomas Telford University Technical College is a mixed school for ages 11-19 located on the Springfield Campus in Wolverhampton that specialises primarily in Innovate, Design, and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westmidsutc.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 968 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westmidsutc.co.uk performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thomastelfordutc.com

968 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

270 ms

jquery.tweet.css

356 ms

material.css

709 ms

style.css

457 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Westmidsutc.co.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Thomastelfordutc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 792.9 kB (29%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westmidsutc.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 81.1 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. 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 65.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Westmids UTC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 256.3 kB

  • Original 310.7 kB
  • After minification 202.3 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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 256.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 468.0 kB

  • Original 503.0 kB
  • After minification 241.6 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. Westmidsutc.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 468.0 kB or 93% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (56%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westmids UTC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thomastelfordutc.com

www.thomastelfordutc.com

968 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

270 ms

jquery.tweet.css

jquery.tweet.css

356 ms

material.css

material.css

709 ms

style.css

style.css

457 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

371 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

371 ms

animate.css

animate.css

544 ms

icon

icon

57 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

440 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

642 ms

jquery.rss.js

jquery.rss.js

470 ms

dateformat.js

dateformat.js

527 ms

jquery.tweet.js

jquery.tweet.js

536 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

554 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

820 ms

material.js

material.js

886 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

662 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

88 ms

cookieconsent.js

cookieconsent.js

1015 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

1014 ms

google.js

google.js

1017 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

995 ms

custom.js

custom.js

995 ms

twitter-icon-large.png

twitter-icon-large.png

103 ms

facebook-icon-large.png

facebook-icon-large.png

100 ms

SHMW-icon-large.png

SHMW-icon-large.png

133 ms

OLC_icon.png

OLC_icon.png

103 ms

calendar-icon-large.png

calendar-icon-large.png

100 ms

WN-icon-large.png

WN-icon-large.png

100 ms

logotts.png

logotts.png

235 ms

home-banner7.jpg

home-banner7.jpg

758 ms

Footer.png

Footer.png

341 ms

flUhRq6tzZclQEJ-Vdg-IuiaDsNZ.ttf

flUhRq6tzZclQEJ-Vdg-IuiaDsNZ.ttf

56 ms

MaterialIcons-Regular.woff

MaterialIcons-Regular.woff

161 ms

aerial-view-001.jpg

aerial-view-001.jpg

524 ms

bg1.jpg

bg1.jpg

136 ms

sixthformbg.jpg

sixthformbg.jpg

136 ms

tlevel-logo.jpg

tlevel-logo.jpg

326 ms

widget_iframe.96fd96193cc66c3e11d4c5e4c7c7ec97.html

widget_iframe.96fd96193cc66c3e11d4c5e4c7c7ec97.html

27 ms

settings

settings

326 ms

cvr7e81a6-1-500.png

cvr7e81a6-1-500.png

72 ms

moment~timeline~tweet.ae149926685a43cb146e35371430188e.js

moment~timeline~tweet.ae149926685a43cb146e35371430188e.js

199 ms

timeline.687eed636a16648c9f0b1f72d7fa68bd.js

timeline.687eed636a16648c9f0b1f72d7fa68bd.js

225 ms

Accessibility Review

westmidsutc.co.uk accessibility score

79

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.

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

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

westmidsutc.co.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

westmidsutc.co.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

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 Westmidsutc.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 Westmidsutc.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

westmidsutc.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Westmids UTC. 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: