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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hud.ac.uk

University of Huddersfield

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

877 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hud.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hud.ac.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.373

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hud.ac.uk

280 ms

www.hud.ac.uk

379 ms

bootstrap.min.css

32 ms

tiny-slider.css

43 ms

vue.global.prod.js

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Hud.ac.uk, 19% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (706 ms) belongs to the original domain Hud.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hud.ac.uk main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 113.7 kB

  • Original 130.0 kB
  • After minification 127.8 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 113.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Hud images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 132 B

  • Original 112.3 kB
  • After minification 112.3 kB
  • After compression 112.2 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 151 B

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Hud.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (56%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hud. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hud.ac.uk

hud.ac.uk

280 ms

www.hud.ac.uk

www.hud.ac.uk

379 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

32 ms

tiny-slider.css

tiny-slider.css

43 ms

vue.global.prod.js

vue.global.prod.js

45 ms

plyr.css

plyr.css

45 ms

datepicker.min.css

datepicker.min.css

49 ms

index11.css

index11.css

97 ms

index-7df795477c.alt.css

index-7df795477c.alt.css

302 ms

axios.min.js

axios.min.js

74 ms

tiny-slider.js

tiny-slider.js

73 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

93 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

70 ms

c7be6f8337.js

c7be6f8337.js

132 ms

plyr.polyfilled.min.js

plyr.polyfilled.min.js

73 ms

datepicker-full.min.js

datepicker-full.min.js

72 ms

TheNavigationBar-v2.js

TheNavigationBar-v2.js

400 ms

TheFooter.js

TheFooter.js

409 ms

BannerWithCaptionv2.js

BannerWithCaptionv2.js

399 ms

NewsItem.js

NewsItem.js

409 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

101 ms

uoh-logo-2019-white.svg

uoh-logo-2019-white.svg

430 ms

1699_Image_01_Campus_Header.jpg

1699_Image_01_Campus_Header.jpg

524 ms

uoh-logo-2019-gold.svg

uoh-logo-2019-gold.svg

436 ms

gold-gold-gold.png

gold-gold-gold.png

520 ms

striped-background.jpg

striped-background.jpg

434 ms

WhyHudds-1920x1080.jpg

WhyHudds-1920x1080.jpg

521 ms

Student-Ambassadors-on-the-Hud-Uni-Hashtag.jpg

Student-Ambassadors-on-the-Hud-Uni-Hashtag.jpg

703 ms

Research-degrees-block-1920x1080.jpg

Research-degrees-block-1920x1080.jpg

611 ms

prospectuscard.jfif

prospectuscard.jfif

616 ms

white-arrow.png

white-arrow.png

613 ms

spotted-background.jpg

spotted-background.jpg

614 ms

awards_banner.jpg

awards_banner.jpg

618 ms

huddersfield-map.jpg

huddersfield-map.jpg

706 ms

pro.min.js

pro.min.js

178 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

134 ms

foco-regular-webfont.woff

foco-regular-webfont.woff

476 ms

Accessibility Review

hud.ac.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

hud.ac.uk best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hud.ac.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Hud.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 Hud.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

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