Access gcal.ac.uk. Glasgow Caledonian University: The University for the Common Good

gcal.ac.uk

277 ms

www.gcu.ac.uk

713 ms

global.css

265 ms

global-promos.css

353 ms

TwitterUserTimeline.min.css

181 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gcal.ac.uk, 67% (62 requests) were made to Gcu.ac.uk and 4% (4 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Gcu.ac.uk.

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Gcal.ac.uk main page is 4.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

Original 65.8 kB
After minification 59.2 kB
After compression 9.6 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 56.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 201.7 kB

Original 3.2 MB
After minification 3.0 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. Gcal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 447.6 kB

Original 640.4 kB
After minification 609.2 kB
After compression 192.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 447.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 212.9 kB

Original 243.0 kB
After minification 213.7 kB
After compression 30.1 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. Gcal.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 212.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gcal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.