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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

varsity.co.uk

News and features from Cambridge’s independent student paper | Varsity

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

214 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

About Website

Visit varsity.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Varsity content for Pakistan and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about varsity.co.uk

Home of the University of Cambridge’s student newspaper, Varsity. Get the latest News, Comment, Sport, Features, Videos, Culture, Reviews and more from the University and beyond.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Varsity.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 214 ms and then it took 5.2 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

varsity.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,810 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.208

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

varsity.co.uk

214 ms

www.varsity.co.uk

547 ms

main.css

92 ms

jquery-ui.css

72 ms

css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 194 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (128 requests) were addressed to the original Varsity.co.uk, 5% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (7 requests) were made to Dyn.varsity.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (970 ms) belongs to the original domain Varsity.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 599.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Varsity.co.uk main page is 6.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 121.9 kB

  • Original 149.5 kB
  • After minification 145.2 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 121.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 284.7 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.5 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. Varsity images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 193.0 kB

  • Original 750.6 kB
  • After minification 750.6 kB
  • After compression 557.6 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 193.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (25%)

Requests Now

181

After Optimization

136

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 181 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Varsity. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 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

varsity.co.uk accessibility score

76

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

varsity.co.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

varsity.co.uk SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Varsity.co.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 Varsity.co.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 Varsity. 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: