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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% 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

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

sites.gold.ac.uk

Goldsmiths, University of London | Goldsmiths, University of London

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

848 ms

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About Website

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Located in south-east London and specialising in the study of creative, cultural and social subjects. Degree programmes, student life and departmental research.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sites.gold.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 316 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 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sites.gold.ac.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sites.gold.ac.uk

316 ms

gold.ac.uk

255 ms

gold.ac.uk

341 ms

www.gold.ac.uk

536 ms

gtm.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sites.gold.ac.uk, 91% (31 requests) were made to Gold.ac.uk and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) relates to the external source Gold.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sites.gold.ac.uk main page is 1.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 34.5 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 29.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Sites Gold images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 282.6 kB
  • After minification 282.6 kB
  • After compression 282.5 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 118 B

  • Original 45.9 kB
  • After minification 45.9 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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. Sites.gold.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sites Gold. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sites.gold.ac.uk

sites.gold.ac.uk

316 ms

gold.ac.uk

gold.ac.uk

255 ms

gold.ac.uk

gold.ac.uk

341 ms

www.gold.ac.uk

www.gold.ac.uk

536 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

75 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

52 ms

styles.71e42513c5d73164457bdc375e03edfd.css

styles.71e42513c5d73164457bdc375e03edfd.css

189 ms

new-padding.4d42bb4a2cec71cfdf70c66fe638d9a4.css

new-padding.4d42bb4a2cec71cfdf70c66fe638d9a4.css

245 ms

common.45418886ed043452ff32279b11911937.js

common.45418886ed043452ff32279b11911937.js

492 ms

main.c50d5ed0a885d5d00edadb895d936383.js

main.c50d5ed0a885d5d00edadb895d936383.js

342 ms

search.f20cb91c4f1fd41d4fcb603bb51e9a25.js

search.f20cb91c4f1fd41d4fcb603bb51e9a25.js

312 ms

helpful.2b91f387b67c4c65c87ca9d18841370e.js

helpful.2b91f387b67c4c65c87ca9d18841370e.js

313 ms

Clearing_desktop.jpg

Clearing_desktop.jpg

432 ms

Clearing_text-(1).svg

Clearing_text-(1).svg

291 ms

open-days-v3.jpg

open-days-v3.jpg

400 ms

who-we-are-three-students.jpg

who-we-are-three-students.jpg

389 ms

degree-show-1500.jpg

degree-show-1500.jpg

522 ms

Brainstorm-exhibition-1.jpg

Brainstorm-exhibition-1.jpg

575 ms

nunhead-east-lodge-impression.jpeg

nunhead-east-lodge-impression.jpeg

650 ms

UK-Immersive-Tech-Awards-2024.jpg

UK-Immersive-Tech-Awards-2024.jpg

586 ms

Becca-edit.jpg

Becca-edit.jpg

531 ms

Alumni-Commission-Award-960-x-640.jpg

Alumni-Commission-Award-960-x-640.jpg

532 ms

AI-edit.jpg

AI-edit.jpg

707 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

436 ms

shape-nav-bar-16px.svg

shape-nav-bar-16px.svg

438 ms

icon-chevron-down-333.svg

icon-chevron-down-333.svg

476 ms

search-mag-grey.svg

search-mag-grey.svg

492 ms

walking-past-ben-pimlott-800.jpg

walking-past-ben-pimlott-800.jpg

614 ms

bookshop-home-770x325.jpg

bookshop-home-770x325.jpg

536 ms

accommodation-810.jpg

accommodation-810.jpg

642 ms

sprite.svg

sprite.svg

582 ms

Graphik-Semibold-Web.woff

Graphik-Semibold-Web.woff

551 ms

Graphik-Medium-Web.woff

Graphik-Medium-Web.woff

551 ms

Graphik-Regular-Web.woff

Graphik-Regular-Web.woff

580 ms

Accessibility Review

sites.gold.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

sites.gold.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

SEO Factors

sites.gold.ac.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sites.gold.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 Sites.gold.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

sites.gold.ac.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Sites Gold. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: