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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

cam.ac.uk

University of Cambridge

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

354 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

752 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cam content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cam.ac.uk

The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through education, learning and research at the highest international level.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cam.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 354 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cam.ac.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.822

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cam.ac.uk

354 ms

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337 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Cam.ac.uk, 17% (11 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (908 ms) belongs to the original domain Cam.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cam.ac.uk main page is 1.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 645.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 60.3 kB
  • After minification 54.8 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 49.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 645.0 kB
  • After minification 645.0 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. Cam images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 311.6 kB
  • After minification 311.6 kB
  • After compression 298.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 282 B

  • Original 92.2 kB
  • After minification 92.2 kB
  • After compression 91.9 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. Cam.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (33%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cam. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.cam.ac.uk

www.cam.ac.uk

354 ms

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Accessibility Review

cam.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

cam.ac.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cam.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 Cam.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 Cam.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

cam.ac.uk

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