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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk

Conference Aston - Conference centre, meeting rooms, training suites, banqueting space in Birmingham City Centre

Page Load Speed

23.3 sec in total

First Response

731 ms

Resources Loaded

22.5 sec

Page Rendered

70 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 731 ms and then it took 22.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,580 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk

731 ms

SiteClosed.aspx

312 ms

bootstrap.css

616 ms

kinetic.css

443 ms

base.css

364 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Worldpay.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fisglobal.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.5 sec) relates to the external source Fisglobal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 912.5 kB (73%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

346.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk main page is 1.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 965.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 9.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 15.9 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, Kx Web Live Aston needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 681.9 kB

  • Original 965.0 kB
  • After minification 936.7 kB
  • After compression 283.1 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 681.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 218.9 kB

  • Original 260.4 kB
  • After minification 219.0 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 218.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (59%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kx Web Live Aston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk

kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk

731 ms

SiteClosed.aspx

SiteClosed.aspx

312 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

616 ms

kinetic.css

kinetic.css

443 ms

base.css

base.css

364 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

456 ms

brand.css

brand.css

483 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

342 ms

cookies.js

cookies.js

430 ms

KxStyles.css

KxStyles.css

452 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

442 ms

json2.js

json2.js

469 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

823 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

469 ms

Common.js

Common.js

482 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.0.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.10.0.custom.min.js

850 ms

jquery-ui-i18n.min.js

jquery-ui-i18n.min.js

819 ms

jquery.watermark.min.js

jquery.watermark.min.js

586 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

585 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

1281 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

695 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

624 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

821 ms

poweredByWorldPay.gif

poweredByWorldPay.gif

148 ms

20_bg.gif

20_bg.gif

287 ms

logo.png

logo.png

366 ms

home.gif

home.gif

367 ms

phone.gif

phone.gif

383 ms

mail.gif

mail.gif

1402 ms

car.gif

car.gif

372 ms

social_facebook.gif

social_facebook.gif

462 ms

social_twitter.gif

social_twitter.gif

461 ms

social_linkedin.gif

social_linkedin.gif

462 ms

merchant-solutions-worldpay

merchant-solutions-worldpay

210 ms

poweredByWorldPay.gif

poweredByWorldPay.gif

625 ms

ga.js

ga.js

590 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

merchant-solutions-worldpay

merchant-solutions-worldpay

19518 ms

ui-icons_2e83ff_256x240.png

ui-icons_2e83ff_256x240.png

91 ms

ui-icons_ffffff_256x240.png

ui-icons_ffffff_256x240.png

106 ms

Accessibility Review

kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk accessibility score

91

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

Best Practices

kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

kx-web-live.aston.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 Kx-web-live.aston.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 Kx-web-live.aston.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

kx-web-live.aston.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kx Web Live Aston. 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: