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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

art.mmu.ac.uk

Manchester School of Art – Manchester Metropolitan University

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

361 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

About Website

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Homepage for Manchester School of Art at the Manchester Metropolitan University, one of the largest providers of art and design courses in the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Art.mmu.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 361 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

art.mmu.ac.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

art.mmu.ac.uk

361 ms

www.art.mmu.ac.uk

279 ms

www.art.mmu.ac.uk

443 ms

f926af1e-e2dc-4f8f-ae2a-70abeb3a905a.css

52 ms

styles.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Art.mmu.ac.uk, 12% (3 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 12% (3 requests) were made to Artdes.mmu.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (566 ms) belongs to the original domain Art.mmu.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 121.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

329.4 kB

After Optimization

207.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Art.mmu.ac.uk main page is 329.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 170.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 16.8 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 2.7 kB, which is 16% 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 13.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 170.9 kB
  • After minification 157.8 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. Art Mmu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 70.0 kB

  • Original 107.0 kB
  • After minification 104.1 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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 70.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 34.4 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. Art.mmu.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (37%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Art Mmu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

art.mmu.ac.uk accessibility score

62

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

art.mmu.ac.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

art.mmu.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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Art.mmu.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 Art.mmu.ac.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Art Mmu. 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: