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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

belfastmet.ac.uk

Belfast Met

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

281 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Belfastmet.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 281 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

belfastmet.ac.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,590 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

belfastmet.ac.uk

281 ms

www.belfastmet.ac.uk

505 ms

gtm.js

79 ms

uc.js

54 ms

css2

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Belfastmet.ac.uk, 13% (15 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 10% (12 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Belfastmet.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

859.7 kB

After Optimization

704.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Belfastmet.ac.uk main page is 859.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 600.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 112.0 kB

  • Original 128.5 kB
  • After minification 80.9 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 47.6 kB, which is 37% 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 112.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 664 B

  • Original 13.8 kB
  • After minification 13.2 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. Belfast Met images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 600.1 kB
  • After minification 600.1 kB
  • After compression 557.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 117.3 kB
  • After minification 117.3 kB
  • After compression 117.3 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. Belfastmet.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (29%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

77

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Belfast Met. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

belfastmet.ac.uk accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

belfastmet.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

belfastmet.ac.uk SEO score

99

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

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 Belfastmet.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 Belfastmet.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 data is detected on the main page of Belfast Met. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: