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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

brunel.ac.uk

Brunel University of London

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

713 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

365 ms

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About Website

Visit brunel.ac.uk now to see the best up-to-date Brunel content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about brunel.ac.uk

A London campus university with a rich history of innovation. We offer courses that combine excellence in teaching and world-class research.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brunel.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 713 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brunel.ac.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,130 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.brunel.ac.uk

713 ms

brunel.css

383 ms

ToBeSassed.css

295 ms

responsive-tables.css

291 ms

splide.min.css

294 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Brunel.ac.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Tags.srv.stackadapt.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Brunel.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 197.5 kB (46%)

Content Size

433.4 kB

After Optimization

235.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brunel.ac.uk main page is 433.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 185.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 161.0 kB

  • Original 185.5 kB
  • After minification 134.0 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 51.5 kB, which is 28% 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 161.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 562 B

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 41.8 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. Brunel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 155.0 kB
  • After minification 155.0 kB
  • After compression 131.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 23.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 50.5 kB
  • After minification 50.5 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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. Brunel.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (44%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brunel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.brunel.ac.uk

www.brunel.ac.uk

713 ms

brunel.css

brunel.css

383 ms

ToBeSassed.css

ToBeSassed.css

295 ms

responsive-tables.css

responsive-tables.css

291 ms

splide.min.css

splide.min.css

294 ms

splide-pause-button.css

splide-pause-button.css

279 ms

splide-homepage-banner.css

splide-homepage-banner.css

295 ms

SplitBoxDoubleBox.css

SplitBoxDoubleBox.css

559 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

672 ms

splide.min.js

splide.min.js

580 ms

sitewide-scripts-gtm.js

sitewide-scripts-gtm.js

583 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

571 ms

brunel.min.js

brunel.min.js

800 ms

AccordionBoxInit.js

AccordionBoxInit.js

932 ms

responsive-tables.js

responsive-tables.js

932 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

147 ms

brunel-logo.png

brunel-logo.png

315 ms

three-student-ambassadors-standing-in-a-park-and-smiling.jpg

three-student-ambassadors-standing-in-a-park-and-smiling.jpg

338 ms

woman-sitting-with-friends-smiling-into-the-camera.jpg

woman-sitting-with-friends-smiling-into-the-camera.jpg

418 ms

asian-man-in-the-greenhouse-v2.jpg

asian-man-in-the-greenhouse-v2.jpg

422 ms

shutterstock-1118647994-beach-barrier-618x384.jpg

shutterstock-1118647994-beach-barrier-618x384.jpg

529 ms

mhs-618.png

mhs-618.png

615 ms

Vaxs.jpg

Vaxs.jpg

618 ms

Envato-diverse-people-talking-about-disease-diagnosis-in-618x384.jpg

Envato-diverse-people-talking-about-disease-diagnosis-in-618x384.jpg

712 ms

International-students-banner.jpg

International-students-banner.jpg

791 ms

home-page-accommodation-component.jpg

home-page-accommodation-component.jpg

793 ms

Welcome-week-2020-video-box.jpg

Welcome-week-2020-video-box.jpg

987 ms

undergraduate-after-you-have-applied-what-happens-next.jpg

undergraduate-after-you-have-applied-what-happens-next.jpg

988 ms

Eastern-Gateway-building-night.jpg

Eastern-Gateway-building-night.jpg

898 ms

Work-for-us.jpg

Work-for-us.jpg

989 ms

brunel-logo.png

brunel-logo.png

1076 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

1077 ms

video-pause.png

video-pause.png

1150 ms

Website-Banner-1920x830-v1.jpg

Website-Banner-1920x830-v1.jpg

1603 ms

button-bg.svg

button-bg.svg

1232 ms

male-student-standing-between-buildings-blurred-through-long-exposure.jpg

male-student-standing-between-buildings-blurred-through-long-exposure.jpg

1450 ms

search-button-bg.svg

search-button-bg.svg

1326 ms

montserrat-semibold-webfont-woff.woff

montserrat-semibold-webfont-woff.woff

1408 ms

montserrat-bold-webfont-woff.woff

montserrat-bold-webfont-woff.woff

1509 ms

montserrat-regular-webfont-woff.woff

montserrat-regular-webfont-woff.woff

1595 ms

footer.svg

footer.svg

1615 ms

brunel-logo-blue.png

brunel-logo-blue.png

1795 ms

brunel-insta.svg

brunel-insta.svg

1712 ms

brunel-fb.svg

brunel-fb.svg

1796 ms

brunel-x.svg

brunel-x.svg

1875 ms

brunel-youtube.svg

brunel-youtube.svg

1874 ms

brunel-linkedin.svg

brunel-linkedin.svg

1884 ms

brunel-tiktok.svg

brunel-tiktok.svg

1993 ms

comments.svg

comments.svg

2084 ms

icomoon-ttf.ttf

icomoon-ttf.ttf

1979 ms

uc.js

uc.js

37 ms

quant.js

quant.js

29 ms

events.js

events.js

31 ms

scevent.min.js

scevent.min.js

104 ms

share.svg

share.svg

1888 ms

saq_pxl

saq_pxl

8 ms

print.css

print.css

133 ms

Accessibility Review

brunel.ac.uk accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Best Practices

brunel.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brunel.ac.uk SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Brunel.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 Brunel.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

brunel.ac.uk

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