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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

swc.ac.uk

SWC | South West College

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

336 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

251 ms

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About Website

Visit swc.ac.uk now to see the best up-to-date SWC content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about swc.ac.uk

South West College is at the heart of the communities of Tyrone and Fermanagh. These two counties and their people have a long and proud history of both national and international interaction. The Col...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Swc.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 336 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

swc.ac.uk performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

swc.ac.uk

336 ms

www.swc.ac.uk

484 ms

swc.min.css

365 ms

css

23 ms

WebResource.axd

247 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Swc.ac.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (758 ms) belongs to the original domain Swc.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 416.8 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Swc.ac.uk main page is 1.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 5.0 kB, which is 11% 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 34.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 54.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. SWC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 236.6 kB

  • Original 356.7 kB
  • After minification 340.7 kB
  • After compression 120.1 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 236.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 91.8 kB

  • Original 105.7 kB
  • After minification 105.6 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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. Swc.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 91.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (52%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SWC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

swc.ac.uk

swc.ac.uk

336 ms

www.swc.ac.uk

www.swc.ac.uk

484 ms

swc.min.css

swc.min.css

365 ms

css

css

23 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

247 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

252 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

330 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

415 ms

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

342 ms

jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

246 ms

jquery.selectskin.js

jquery.selectskin.js

257 ms

jquery.tagFlow-1.js

jquery.tagFlow-1.js

294 ms

swc.js

swc.js

335 ms

swc.contactUs.js

swc.contactUs.js

336 ms

swc.coursePage.js

swc.coursePage.js

339 ms

swc.newsPage.js

swc.newsPage.js

379 ms

swc.microsite.js

swc.microsite.js

440 ms

swc.booking.js

swc.booking.js

441 ms

queensUni.png

queensUni.png

265 ms

ulsterUni_new.png

ulsterUni_new.png

265 ms

cookie.png

cookie.png

265 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

67 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

336 ms

getengineering.jpg

getengineering.jpg

482 ms

recruitsmart.jpg

recruitsmart.jpg

730 ms

17-SWC-48-Sheets-2014b_Page_4.jpg

17-SWC-48-Sheets-2014b_Page_4.jpg

758 ms

open-day-front-page.jpg

open-day-front-page.jpg

418 ms

associateIcons.png

associateIcons.png

298 ms

DXI1ORHCpsQm3Vp6mXoaTYnF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

DXI1ORHCpsQm3Vp6mXoaTYnF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

24 ms

MTP_ySUJH_bn48VBG8sNSonF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

MTP_ySUJH_bn48VBG8sNSonF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

33 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

collect

collect

10 ms

collect

collect

67 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

460 ms

Accessibility Review

swc.ac.uk accessibility score

93

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

swc.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

swc.ac.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Swc.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 Swc.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

swc.ac.uk

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