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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

lcm.ac.uk

Leeds Conservatoire | Specialist Music and Performing Arts Conservatoire

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

464 ms

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About Website

Visit lcm.ac.uk now to see the best up-to-date Lcm content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about lcm.ac.uk

A leading conservatoire offering undergraduate music degrees in Classical, Popular, Jazz, Music Production, Folk, Roots and Blues, Music Business, and drama degrees including Musical Theatre, Acting a...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lcm.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 181 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

lcm.ac.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lcm.ac.uk

181 ms

lcm.ac.uk

365 ms

thirdparty.css.v638522338665564608

142 ms

d52059d7-784f-4d98-9aa8-1d5075955e1d.css

88 ms

css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Lcm.ac.uk, 9% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (825 ms) belongs to the original domain Lcm.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 110.6 kB (21%)

Content Size

536.7 kB

After Optimization

426.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lcm.ac.uk main page is 536.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 272.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 74.4 kB

  • Original 87.2 kB
  • After minification 63.3 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.9 kB, which is 27% 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 74.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 82.9 kB
  • After minification 80.4 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. Lcm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 272.7 kB
  • After minification 272.5 kB
  • After compression 239.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 33.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 271 B

  • Original 93.9 kB
  • After minification 93.9 kB
  • After compression 93.7 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. Lcm.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (42%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lcm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lcm.ac.uk

lcm.ac.uk

181 ms

lcm.ac.uk

lcm.ac.uk

365 ms

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142 ms

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88 ms

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40 ms

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179 ms

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148 ms

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35 ms

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45 ms

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47 ms

jquery.min.js

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34 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

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50 ms

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46 ms

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51 ms

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297 ms

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Create

Create

92 ms

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Accessibility Review

lcm.ac.uk accessibility score

94

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

lcm.ac.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lcm.ac.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Lcm.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 Lcm.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

lcm.ac.uk

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