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lcss.glam.ac.uk

Home | University of South Wales

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

502 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lcss.glam.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 502 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lcss.glam.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lcss.glam.ac.uk

502 ms

www.southwales.ac.uk

494 ms

61d70a0d2757.css

245 ms

duplo.min.css

161 ms

royalslider.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lcss.glam.ac.uk, 52% (36 requests) were made to Southwales.ac.uk and 19% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (993 ms) relates to the external source Southwales.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (34%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Lcss.glam.ac.uk main page is 6.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 115.4 kB

  • Original 139.5 kB
  • After minification 135.8 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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 115.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 4.1 MB

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, Lcss Glam needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 572.7 kB

  • Original 868.5 kB
  • After minification 867.2 kB
  • After compression 295.8 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 572.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 222.5 kB

  • Original 260.4 kB
  • After minification 219.2 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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. Lcss.glam.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 222.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (48%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lcss Glam. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lcss.glam.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 Lcss.glam.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 Lcss.glam.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 Lcss Glam. 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: