Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

execed.imperial.ac.uk

Executive Education Courses | Online, On-campus & Virtual

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

517 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

498 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Execed.imperial.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 517 ms and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

execed.imperial.ac.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

execed.imperial.ac.uk

517 ms

988 ms

gtm.js

136 ms

css_zMoFz0Yne-Mcw-X2bTmHVTwhyfMNp2ZWzD6gKXdwWNE.css

233 ms

css_x4JYFIQFIhADsIMxjMcW3c3Hq0JnPd5OovCbzDl5ONM.css

280 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Execed.imperial.ac.uk, 20% (27 requests) were made to Imperial.ac.uk and 6% (8 requests) were made to C1.adform.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Imperial.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 196.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

568.9 kB

After Optimization

372.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Execed.imperial.ac.uk main page is 568.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 206.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 169.3 kB

  • Original 206.5 kB
  • After minification 171.2 kB
  • After compression 37.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 35.2 kB, which is 17% 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 169.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 164.2 kB
  • After minification 158.4 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. Execed Imperial images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 144.3 kB
  • After minification 144.3 kB
  • After compression 134.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 53.9 kB
  • After compression 42.9 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. Execed.imperial.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.1 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (79%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Execed Imperial. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

execed.imperial.ac.uk accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

execed.imperial.ac.uk best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

execed.imperial.ac.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Execed.imperial.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 Execed.imperial.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 Execed Imperial. 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: