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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

philosophy.bham.ac.uk

Department of Philosophy - University of Birmingham

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

522 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

470 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Philosophy Bham content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about philosophy.bham.ac.uk

The Department of Philosophy at Birmingham offers expertise in metaphysics and epistemology; philosophy of language, mind and action; ethics, ethical theory and global ethics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Philosophy.bham.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 522 ms and then it took 4.6 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

philosophy.bham.ac.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

philosophy.bham.ac.uk

522 ms

index.aspx

236 ms

WebResource.axd

409 ms

styles.css

406 ms

modernizr.js

243 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Philosophy.bham.ac.uk, 38% (28 requests) were made to Birmingham.ac.uk and 34% (25 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Birmingham.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Philosophy.bham.ac.uk main page is 4.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 56.3 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 9.8 kB, which is 17% 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 44.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Philosophy Bham images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 545.1 kB

  • Original 712.6 kB
  • After minification 663.0 kB
  • After compression 167.5 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 545.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 362.7 kB

  • Original 450.0 kB
  • After minification 448.4 kB
  • After compression 87.3 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. Philosophy.bham.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 362.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (27%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Philosophy Bham. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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236 ms

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Accessibility Review

philosophy.bham.ac.uk accessibility score

93

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 match their roles

Best Practices

philosophy.bham.ac.uk best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

philosophy.bham.ac.uk SEO score

97

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 Philosophy.bham.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 Philosophy.bham.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

philosophy.bham.ac.uk

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