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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk

BCU Graduate+ | Get Involved. Get Experience. Get Prepared.

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

3.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

833 ms

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About Website

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

BCU Graduate+ from Birmingham City University allows students to gain additional recognition for their studies and work outside the classroom.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 3.1 sec and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.459

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk

3149 ms

core.css

90 ms

fullPage.css

208 ms

base.css

302 ms

chosen.css

350 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk, 16% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 15% (8 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

862.6 kB

After Optimization

772.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk main page is 862.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 659.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 73.3 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 70.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 659.4 kB
  • After minification 649.5 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. Graduate Plus BCU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 99.7 kB
  • After minification 99.5 kB
  • After compression 94.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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. Graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (50%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Graduate Plus BCU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk SEO score

87

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Graduateplus.bcu.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 Graduateplus.bcu.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

graduateplus.bcu.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Graduate Plus BCU. 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: