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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

cain.ulster.ac.uk

CAIN: Northern Ireland Conflict, Politics, and Society. Information on 'the troubles'.

Page Load Speed

15 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

6.1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to cain.ulster.ac.uk homepage info - get ready to check CAIN Ulster best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about cain.ulster.ac.uk

CAIN: Northern Ireland Conflict, Politics, and Society. Information on 'the troubles'. This site contains information and source material on the Troubles in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cain.ulster.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 14 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cain.ulster.ac.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cain.ulster.ac.uk

1007 ms

functions.js

192 ms

addthis_widget.js

22 ms

lg-share-en.gif

947 ms

CAINBanner.jpg

1237 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Cain.ulster.ac.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to M.addthisedge.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cain.ulster.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 277.8 kB (36%)

Content Size

782.3 kB

After Optimization

504.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Cain.ulster.ac.uk main page is 782.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 379.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 37.6 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. 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 29.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 365.1 kB
  • After minification 362.4 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. CAIN Ulster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 246.0 kB

  • Original 379.5 kB
  • After minification 379.4 kB
  • After compression 133.5 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 246.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (38%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CAIN Ulster. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cain.ulster.ac.uk

cain.ulster.ac.uk

1007 ms

functions.js

functions.js

192 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

22 ms

lg-share-en.gif

lg-share-en.gif

947 ms

CAINBanner.jpg

CAINBanner.jpg

1237 ms

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980 ms

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966 ms

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1015 ms

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1011 ms

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965 ms

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1242 ms

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1254 ms

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1251 ms

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1236 ms

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1306 ms

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1307 ms

funding_rt.jpg

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1580 ms

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1579 ms

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1517 ms

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1636 ms

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1501 ms

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4519 ms

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4519 ms

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4238 ms

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4238 ms

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4521 ms

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4480 ms

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4481 ms

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4483 ms

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4481 ms

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4480 ms

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4481 ms

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4565 ms

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3785 ms

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3781 ms

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3781 ms

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3560 ms

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3555 ms

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3545 ms

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3544 ms

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3491 ms

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3603 ms

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3331 ms

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883 ms

Accessibility Review

cain.ulster.ac.uk accessibility score

54

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cain.ulster.ac.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cain.ulster.ac.uk SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cain.ulster.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 Cain.ulster.ac.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

cain.ulster.ac.uk

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