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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

research.bham.ac.uk

Birmingham – a top research university - University of Birmingham

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

400 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Research.bham.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

research.bham.ac.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.51

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

research.bham.ac.uk

340 ms

research

170 ms

index.aspx

306 ms

styles.css

242 ms

WebResource.axd

495 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Research.bham.ac.uk, 74% (29 requests) were made to Birmingham.ac.uk and 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (528 ms) relates to the external source Birmingham.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 985.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

748.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Research.bham.ac.uk main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 679.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 39.0 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 8.9 kB, which is 19% 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 37.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 544.7 kB
  • After minification 486.0 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, Research Bham needs image optimization as it can save up to 58.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 340.4 kB

  • Original 462.7 kB
  • After minification 432.1 kB
  • After compression 122.3 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 340.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 549.2 kB

  • Original 679.0 kB
  • After minification 677.5 kB
  • After compression 129.8 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. Research.bham.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 549.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (29%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Research 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

research.bham.ac.uk

research.bham.ac.uk

340 ms

research

research

170 ms

index.aspx

index.aspx

306 ms

styles.css

styles.css

242 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

495 ms

styles.css

styles.css

331 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

166 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

330 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

528 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

411 ms

all.min.js

all.min.js

331 ms

Heroes-Promo-234x160.jpg

Heroes-Promo-234x160.jpg

110 ms

Impact.jpg

Impact.jpg

109 ms

Perspectives.jpg

Perspectives.jpg

109 ms

Researchfacilities.jpg

Researchfacilities.jpg

107 ms

Funding.jpg

Funding.jpg

109 ms

research-community-2.jpg

research-community-2.jpg

108 ms

Partners.jpg

Partners.jpg

197 ms

IAS.JPG

IAS.JPG

198 ms

barber.jpg

barber.jpg

197 ms

bramall.jpg

bramall.jpg

198 ms

cadbury.jpg

cadbury.jpg

196 ms

lapworth.jpg

lapworth.jpg

196 ms

winterbourne.jpg

winterbourne.jpg

283 ms

research.jpg

research.jpg

284 ms

UoY-employmentoutlined.png

UoY-employmentoutlined.png

365 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

101 ms

research-hero-banner.jpg

research-hero-banner.jpg

442 ms

1-696x401-min.jpg

1-696x401-min.jpg

248 ms

our-impact.jpg

our-impact.jpg

246 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

30 ms

62556.js

62556.js

9 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

45 ms

icons.data.svg.css

icons.data.svg.css

333 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

collect

collect

66 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

41 ms

collect

collect

36 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

Accessibility Review

research.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

research.bham.ac.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

research.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 Research.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 Research.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

research.bham.ac.uk

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