Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

ethesis.co.uk

Thesis Binding, Dissertation Printing Service, London, UK | eThesis

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

375 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ethesis.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 375 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ethesis.co.uk performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ethesis.co.uk

375 ms

www.ethesis.co.uk

591 ms

reset.css

85 ms

screen.css

168 ms

feedback-v2.js

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Ethesis.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (591 ms) belongs to the original domain Ethesis.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

214.8 kB

After Optimization

178.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Ethesis.co.uk main page is 214.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 152.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 11.9 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.5 kB, which is 12% 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 8.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 152.8 kB
  • After minification 151.1 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. EThesis images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 27.5 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 9.1 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Ethesis.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (19%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EThesis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ethesis.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

ethesis.co.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ethesis.co.uk SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ethesis.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Ethesis.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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