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lcm.ac.uk

Leeds Conservatoire | Specialist Music and Performing Arts Conservatoire

Page Load Speed

11.4 sec in total

First Response

535 ms

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

400 ms

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About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lcm.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 535 ms and then it took 10.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lcm.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lcm.ac.uk

535 ms

reset.css

159 ms

rama-gothic-e-regular.css

162 ms

slick.css

164 ms

style.css

257 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Lcm.ac.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Lcm.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 847.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Lcm.ac.uk main page is 4.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 36.3 kB

  • Original 47.5 kB
  • After minification 41.3 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 6.2 kB, which is 13% 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 36.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 422.5 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Obviously, Lcm needs image optimization as it can save up to 422.5 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 328.7 kB

  • Original 466.6 kB
  • After minification 440.2 kB
  • After compression 137.9 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 328.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 59.9 kB

  • Original 72.9 kB
  • After minification 59.1 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 59.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (42%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 69 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lcm.ac.uk SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • 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 neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lcm. 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: