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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

ceas.manchester.ac.uk

Department of Chemical Engineering - The University of Manchester

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

441 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

400 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ceas.manchester.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 441 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ceas.manchester.ac.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,170 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ceas.manchester.ac.uk

441 ms

www.ce.manchester.ac.uk

544 ms

maze-universal-loader.js

31 ms

global-mhs-v3.css

618 ms

left-menu-new.css

548 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ceas.manchester.ac.uk, 50% (26 requests) were made to Webassets.manchester.ac.uk and 15% (8 requests) were made to Content.presspage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (873 ms) relates to the external source Ce.manchester.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

729.8 kB

After Optimization

623.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ceas.manchester.ac.uk main page is 729.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 490.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 11.6 kB, which is 18% 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 53.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 490.8 kB
  • After minification 473.4 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. Ceas Manchester images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 126.5 kB
  • After minification 126.5 kB
  • After compression 107.7 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 18.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 47.8 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 31.4 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. Ceas.manchester.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.4 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (58%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ceas Manchester. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ceas.manchester.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ceas.manchester.ac.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ceas.manchester.ac.uk SEO score

85

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

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

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 Ceas.manchester.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 Ceas.manchester.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 Ceas Manchester. 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: