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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

online.lincoln.ac.uk

Online MBA & MSc Management degrees | University of Lincoln

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

250 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Online.lincoln.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 250 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

online.lincoln.ac.uk performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gateway.lincoln.ac.uk

250 ms

gateway.web01.lincoln.ac.uk

425 ms

gateway

163 ms

css

58 ms

cwd-min.css

1243 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Online.lincoln.ac.uk, 15% (4 requests) were made to Gateway.web01.lincoln.ac.uk and 15% (4 requests) were made to Cwd5.web01.lincoln.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cwd5.web01.lincoln.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 388.2 kB (74%)

Content Size

526.6 kB

After Optimization

138.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Online.lincoln.ac.uk main page is 526.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 287.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 4.4 kB, which is 28% 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 12.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 46.8 kB
  • After minification 29.4 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. Obviously, Online Lincoln needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.4 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 211.2 kB

  • Original 287.8 kB
  • After minification 287.8 kB
  • After compression 76.6 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 211.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 146.7 kB

  • Original 176.4 kB
  • After minification 175.8 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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. Online.lincoln.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 146.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (15%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Online Lincoln. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gateway.lincoln.ac.uk

gateway.lincoln.ac.uk

250 ms

gateway.web01.lincoln.ac.uk

gateway.web01.lincoln.ac.uk

425 ms

gateway

gateway

163 ms

css

css

58 ms

cwd-min.css

cwd-min.css

1243 ms

cwd5

cwd5

164 ms

ic-bb.png

ic-bb.png

122 ms

ic-portal.png

ic-portal.png

229 ms

ic-messages.png

ic-messages.png

196 ms

ic-library.png

ic-library.png

231 ms

ic-directory.png

ic-directory.png

202 ms

ic-ftp.png

ic-ftp.png

218 ms

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000000-128-3-106.png

137 ms

ic-print.png

ic-print.png

221 ms

ic-support.png

ic-support.png

232 ms

000000-80-1-106.png

000000-80-1-106.png

221 ms

cwd-min.js

cwd-min.js

1416 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

5 ms

cwd5

cwd5

92 ms

ic-status.png

ic-status.png

247 ms

ic-weather.png

ic-weather.png

253 ms

crest-white.svg

crest-white.svg

83 ms

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cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

29 ms

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MTP_ySUJH_bn48VBG8sNSonF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

38 ms

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38 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

162 ms

Accessibility Review

online.lincoln.ac.uk accessibility score

95

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.

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

online.lincoln.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

SEO Factors

online.lincoln.ac.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Online.lincoln.ac.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 Online.lincoln.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

online.lincoln.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Online Lincoln. 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: