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Visit varsity.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Varsity content for Pakistan and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about varsity.co.uk
Home of the University of Cambridge’s student newspaper, Varsity. Get the latest News, Comment, Sport, Features, Videos, Culture, Reviews and more from the University and beyond.
Visit varsity.co.ukWe analyzed Varsity.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.
varsity.co.uk performance score
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Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Varsity.co.uk, 8% (7 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Varsity.co.uk.
Page size can be reduced by 339.9 kB (22%)
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In fact, the total size of Varsity.co.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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 48.7 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 48.7 kB or 74% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 39.4 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. Varsity images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 207.0 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 207.0 kB or 66% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 44.7 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. Varsity.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 44.7 kB or 85% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (47%)
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The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Varsity. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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varsity.co.uk accessibility score
ARIA
These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.
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Issue
[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles
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.
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Issue
Buttons do not have an accessible name
<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Links do not have a discernible name
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
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Issue
Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
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Issue
Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order
varsity.co.uk best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
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Serves images with low resolution
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Page has valid source maps
varsity.co.uk SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
Impact
Issue
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Varsity.co.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 Varsity.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.
varsity.co.uk
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Varsity. 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: