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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

rms.stir.ac.uk

Research Information

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

542 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rms.stir.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 542 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rms.stir.ac.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rms.stir.ac.uk

542 ms

3782

2339 ms

eAF7sqpgb-jyGdIAFrMEaw__

264 ms

3_3_3.Finalorg.ajax4jsf.javascript.AjaxScript

538 ms

eAF7sqpgb-jyGdIAFrMEaw__

185 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Rms.stir.ac.uk, 17% (8 requests) were made to Webtools.stir.ac.uk and 8% (4 requests) were made to Stir.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Rms.stir.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.1 kB (67%)

Content Size

249.4 kB

After Optimization

82.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rms.stir.ac.uk main page is 249.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 143.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 35.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 6.8 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. Obviously, Rms Stir needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.7 kB or 41% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 84.2 kB

  • Original 143.1 kB
  • After minification 135.8 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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 84.2 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.0 kB

  • Original 53.6 kB
  • After minification 52.4 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Rms.stir.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (84%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rms Stir. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rms.stir.ac.uk accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rms.stir.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

SEO Factors

rms.stir.ac.uk SEO score

90

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rms.stir.ac.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Rms.stir.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 Rms Stir. 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: