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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

aber.ac.uk

Aberystwyth University: Top in England and Wales for Student Satisfaction

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

274 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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

Awarded University of the Year for Teaching Quality, Aberystwyth University delivers cutting-edge research and teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aber.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 274 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aber.ac.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.478

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aber.ac.uk

274 ms

aber.ac.uk

389 ms

585 ms

app-v2.css

298 ms

uc.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Aber.ac.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Consent.cookiebot.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Script.crazyegg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (864 ms) belongs to the original domain Aber.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

937.2 kB

After Optimization

863.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aber.ac.uk main page is 937.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 748.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 37.0 kB

  • Original 45.3 kB
  • After minification 41.2 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 37.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 748.4 kB
  • After minification 721.0 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. Aber images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 93.3 kB
  • After compression 84.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 299 B

  • Original 50.2 kB
  • After minification 50.2 kB
  • After compression 49.9 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. Aber.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (19%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aber. 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

aber.ac.uk

aber.ac.uk

274 ms

aber.ac.uk

aber.ac.uk

389 ms

585 ms

app-v2.css

app-v2.css

298 ms

uc.js

uc.js

21 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

279 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

408 ms

plugins.v4.min.js

plugins.v4.min.js

408 ms

main.v4.min.js

main.v4.min.js

291 ms

hsts-enabler

hsts-enabler

157 ms

au-logo.png

au-logo.png

152 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

151 ms

open-day-xl.jpg

open-day-xl.jpg

470 ms

apply-now-sep-24-xl.jpg

apply-now-sep-24-xl.jpg

317 ms

location-xl.jpg

location-xl.jpg

381 ms

pg-xl.jpg

pg-xl.jpg

429 ms

graduation.svg

graduation.svg

303 ms

course.svg

course.svg

399 ms

prospectus.svg

prospectus.svg

401 ms

video.svg

video.svg

412 ms

world.svg

world.svg

477 ms

research.svg

research.svg

495 ms

mba-xl.jpg

mba-xl.jpg

499 ms

nursing-xl.jpg

nursing-xl.jpg

505 ms

foundation-xl.jpg

foundation-xl.jpg

529 ms

scholarships-2-xl.jpg

scholarships-2-xl.jpg

565 ms

global-opportunities-2-xl.jpg

global-opportunities-2-xl.jpg

575 ms

research-in-action-xl.jpg

research-in-action-xl.jpg

773 ms

industry-collaboration-xl.jpg

industry-collaboration-xl.jpg

597 ms

research-news-xl.jpg

research-news-xl.jpg

599 ms

life-on-campus-2-xl.jpg

life-on-campus-2-xl.jpg

627 ms

student-life-xl.jpg

student-life-xl.jpg

660 ms

our-location-xl.jpg

our-location-xl.jpg

672 ms

virtual-tour-xl.jpg

virtual-tour-xl.jpg

693 ms

international-xl.jpg

international-xl.jpg

694 ms

community.jpg

community.jpg

725 ms

sm-facebook.svg

sm-facebook.svg

754 ms

sm-youtube.svg

sm-youtube.svg

768 ms

sm-x.svg

sm-x.svg

792 ms

sm-instagram.svg

sm-instagram.svg

789 ms

aber-map.png

aber-map.png

823 ms

gug-24-en.png

gug-24-en.png

848 ms

qaa.png

qaa.png

864 ms

access-en.png

access-en.png

805 ms

disability-en.png

disability-en.png

820 ms

hsts-enabler

hsts-enabler

858 ms

hkgrotesk-regular.woff

hkgrotesk-regular.woff

762 ms

hkgrotesk-medium.woff

hkgrotesk-medium.woff

786 ms

5182.js

5182.js

140 ms

hkgrotesk-semibold.woff

hkgrotesk-semibold.woff

666 ms

hkgrotesk-bold.woff

hkgrotesk-bold.woff

654 ms

sl-navy-arrow-sprite.svg

sl-navy-arrow-sprite.svg

611 ms

sl-grey-arrow-sprite.svg

sl-grey-arrow-sprite.svg

624 ms

Accessibility Review

aber.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

aber.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

aber.ac.uk SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aber.ac.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 Aber.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

aber.ac.uk

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