Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk

- UAL Research Online

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

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UAL Research Online is the online showcase of the research produced at University of the Arts London. We hold, manage, share and preserve the research material produced by the University's researchers...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 3.9 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

ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk

1021 ms

jsapi

22 ms

auto-3.3.13.css

428 ms

auto-3.3.13.js

929 ms

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk, 10% (4 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 478.5 kB (80%)

Content Size

601.6 kB

After Optimization

123.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk main page is 601.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 503.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 25.0 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.3 kB, which is 15% 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 22.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Obviously, UAL Research Online Arts needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 401.4 kB

  • Original 503.6 kB
  • After minification 358.5 kB
  • After compression 102.2 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 401.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.8 kB

  • Original 60.9 kB
  • After minification 41.9 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. Ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (15%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UAL Research Online Arts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk accessibility score

66

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

ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk SEO score

62

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Ualresearchonline.arts.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 Ualresearchonline.arts.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of UAL Research Online Arts. 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: