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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

libf.ac.uk

LIBF: Shape Your Future with Flexible, Online Education

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

4.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Libf.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

libf.ac.uk performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

libf.ac.uk

199 ms

www.libf.ac.uk

71 ms

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52 ms

useHeaders.zlCGK3WV.css

35 ms

2ff8a928-4e19-470b-8587-040efe70df10.js

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Libf.ac.uk, 65% (24 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Try.abtasty.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (821 ms) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (30%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Libf.ac.uk main page is 6.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 437.4 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 2.0 MB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. LIBF images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 62 B
  • After minification 62 B
  • After compression 62 B

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. Libf.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (23%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LIBF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

libf.ac.uk

libf.ac.uk

199 ms

www.libf.ac.uk

www.libf.ac.uk

71 ms

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f4f0ed2f7aae03edd178fc4dd3ac45ab.js

52 ms

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useHeaders.zlCGK3WV.css

35 ms

2ff8a928-4e19-470b-8587-040efe70df10.js

2ff8a928-4e19-470b-8587-040efe70df10.js

195 ms

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CZc652V3.js

194 ms

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194 ms

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LIBF-TEF_Silver-2023_2_ebjmmi.png

154 ms

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231 ms

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176 ms

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181 ms

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176 ms

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457 ms

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361 ms

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408 ms

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391 ms

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638 ms

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446 ms

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457 ms

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495 ms

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535 ms

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607 ms

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703 ms

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725 ms

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821 ms

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790 ms

libf-logo.svg

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8 ms

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110 ms

Accessibility Review

libf.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

libf.ac.uk best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

libf.ac.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Libf.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 Libf.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

libf.ac.uk

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