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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk

University Education For The Creative Industries - Futureworks

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

311 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

449 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Exchange.futureworks.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 311 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.235

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk

311 ms

futureworks.ac.uk

370 ms

hotjar-5061056.js

153 ms

style.min.css

47 ms

animate.min.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Exchange.futureworks.ac.uk, 58% (18 requests) were made to Futureworks.ac.uk and 10% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (370 ms) relates to the external source Futureworks.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

231.7 kB

After Optimization

153.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Exchange.futureworks.ac.uk main page is 231.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 97.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 77.9 kB

  • Original 97.7 kB
  • After minification 97.5 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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. 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 77.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 202 B

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Exchange Futureworks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 164 B

  • Original 83.4 kB
  • After minification 83.4 kB
  • After compression 83.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 47.6 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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. Exchange.futureworks.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (81%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Exchange Futureworks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk

311 ms

futureworks.ac.uk

futureworks.ac.uk

370 ms

hotjar-5061056.js

hotjar-5061056.js

153 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

47 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

34 ms

ea-style.min.css

ea-style.min.css

38 ms

simple-banner.css

simple-banner.css

37 ms

style.css

style.css

40 ms

gdpr.css

gdpr.css

50 ms

css

css

48 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

simple-banner.js

simple-banner.js

49 ms

ofc1llx.js

ofc1llx.js

37 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

47 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

135 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

8 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

15 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

19 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

19 ms

jquery.masonry.min.js

jquery.masonry.min.js

14 ms

script.js

script.js

18 ms

custom.js

custom.js

67 ms

main.js

main.js

71 ms

home-stripes-tile.png

home-stripes-tile.png

119 ms

home-stripes-gradient.png

home-stripes-gradient.png

118 ms

1i0tgb6k2

1i0tgb6k2

116 ms

embed-script.js

embed-script.js

106 ms

d

d

6 ms

d

d

14 ms

embed-script.js

embed-script.js

352 ms

p.gif

p.gif

53 ms

Accessibility Review

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk accessibility score

86

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk SEO score

84

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Exchange.futureworks.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 Exchange.futureworks.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

exchange.futureworks.ac.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: