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webct.bham.ac.uk

Birmingham Digital Education

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

143 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webct.bham.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

webct.bham.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

webct.bham.ac.uk

2021 ms

index.aspx

255 ms

0000reset.css

88 ms

0180intranetsite.css

173 ms

0902StudentHubSearch.css

250 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Webct.bham.ac.uk, 93% (37 requests) were made to Intranet.birmingham.ac.uk and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Webct.bham.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 376.3 kB (52%)

Content Size

720.6 kB

After Optimization

344.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Webct.bham.ac.uk main page is 720.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 396.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. 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 21.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 244.7 kB
  • After minification 205.9 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, Webct Bham needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.8 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 274.9 kB

  • Original 396.0 kB
  • After minification 375.7 kB
  • After compression 121.1 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 274.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. Webct.bham.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (50%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Webct 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

webct.bham.ac.uk SEO score

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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 Webct.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 Webct.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

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