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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

citycollege.ac.uk

The City College London | Business Management, Social & Healthcare Diploma Courses - The City College

Page Load Speed

12.9 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citycollege.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 9.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citycollege.ac.uk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,320 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.31

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citycollege.ac.uk

2990 ms

infopopup.css

312 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

449 ms

applyonline-public.css

491 ms

style.min.css

659 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (108 requests) were addressed to the original Citycollege.ac.uk, 11% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Citycollege.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (59%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citycollege.ac.uk main page is 5.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 379.3 kB

  • Original 462.5 kB
  • After minification 444.2 kB
  • After compression 83.2 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 379.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. City College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 430.1 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 1.1 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 247.4 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. Citycollege.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 100 (85%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 43 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

citycollege.ac.uk accessibility score

79

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

citycollege.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

citycollege.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 Citycollege.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 Citycollege.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 City College. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: