Tools & Wizards About Us
masts.ac.uk screenshot

Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

masts.ac.uk

MASTS | Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

masts.ac.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing MASTS content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about masts.ac.uk

MASTS is a consortium of organisations engaged in marine science and represents the majority of Scotland's marine research capacity.

Visit masts.ac.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Masts.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 2.2 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

masts.ac.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

masts.ac.uk

105 ms

masts.ac.uk

51 ms

uqz7rzy.css

91 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

24 ms

sina-morphing.min.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (119 requests) were addressed to the original Masts.ac.uk, 2% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) belongs to the original domain Masts.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

958.5 kB

After Optimization

781.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Masts.ac.uk main page is 958.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 721.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 176.7 kB

  • Original 213.3 kB
  • After minification 206.9 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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 176.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 721.5 kB
  • After minification 721.5 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. MASTS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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 0 B

  • Original 5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 116 (96%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MASTS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 63 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

masts.ac.uk

masts.ac.uk

105 ms

masts.ac.uk

masts.ac.uk

51 ms

uqz7rzy.css

uqz7rzy.css

91 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

24 ms

sina-morphing.min.css

sina-morphing.min.css

49 ms

de-scroll-animation.css

de-scroll-animation.css

40 ms

de-reveal-animation.css

de-reveal-animation.css

43 ms

revealer.css

revealer.css

62 ms

de-reveal-curtain-animation.css

de-reveal-curtain-animation.css

53 ms

decolines.css

decolines.css

38 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

70 ms

lettereffect.css

lettereffect.css

66 ms

pater.css

pater.css

64 ms

animate.css

animate.css

76 ms

de-staggering.css

de-staggering.css

74 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

woocommerce-layout.css

82 ms

woocommerce.css

woocommerce.css

88 ms

tribe-events-single-skeleton.min.css

tribe-events-single-skeleton.min.css

94 ms

tribe-events-single-full.min.css

tribe-events-single-full.min.css

93 ms

widget-base.min.css

widget-base.min.css

98 ms

cookie-notice.css

cookie-notice.css

100 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

119 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

131 ms

header-footer.min.css

header-footer.min.css

112 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

109 ms

simple-line-icons.css

simple-line-icons.css

125 ms

htflexboxgrid.css

htflexboxgrid.css

126 ms

slick.css

slick.css

140 ms

dethemekit-widgets.css

dethemekit-widgets.css

135 ms

dethemekit-de-carousel.css

dethemekit-de-carousel.css

146 ms

frontend-lite.min.css

frontend-lite.min.css

149 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

145 ms

post-315.css

post-315.css

147 ms

frontend-lite.min.css

frontend-lite.min.css

158 ms

de-sticky-frontend.css

de-sticky-frontend.css

157 ms

de-product-display.css

de-product-display.css

167 ms

post-423.css

post-423.css

170 ms

post-362.css

post-362.css

173 ms

js

js

57 ms

post-477.css

post-477.css

170 ms

post-930.css

post-930.css

161 ms

post-544.css

post-544.css

155 ms

post-366.css

post-366.css

169 ms

variables-skeleton.min.css

variables-skeleton.min.css

158 ms

variables-full.min.css

variables-full.min.css

157 ms

events-virtual-single-block.min.css

events-virtual-single-block.min.css

153 ms

ecs-style.css

ecs-style.css

142 ms

dticon.css

dticon.css

151 ms

widget-nav-menu.min.css

widget-nav-menu.min.css

155 ms

widget-theme-elements.min.css

widget-theme-elements.min.css

160 ms

widget-loop-builder.min.css

widget-loop-builder.min.css

154 ms

widget-posts.min.css

widget-posts.min.css

148 ms

widget-icon-list.min.css

widget-icon-list.min.css

159 ms

p.css

p.css

23 ms

common-skeleton.min.css

common-skeleton.min.css

143 ms

widget-events-list-skeleton.min.css

widget-events-list-skeleton.min.css

142 ms

common-full.min.css

common-full.min.css

161 ms

widget-events-list-full.min.css

widget-events-list-full.min.css

162 ms

widgets-events-common-skeleton.min.css

widgets-events-common-skeleton.min.css

151 ms

widgets-events-common-full.min.css

widgets-events-common-full.min.css

175 ms

wc-blocks.css

wc-blocks.css

146 ms

animations.min.css

animations.min.css

143 ms

archives.min.css

archives.min.css

157 ms

widget-events-list-skeleton.min.css

widget-events-list-skeleton.min.css

151 ms

widget-events-list-full.min.css

widget-events-list-full.min.css

150 ms

jquery-1.12.4-wp.js

jquery-1.12.4-wp.js

150 ms

jquery-migrate-1.4.1-wp.js

jquery-migrate-1.4.1-wp.js

158 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

157 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

156 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

154 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

154 ms

ecs_ajax_pagination.js

ecs_ajax_pagination.js

157 ms

ecs.js

ecs.js

162 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

266 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

265 ms

slider.min.js

slider.min.js

261 ms

draggable.min.js

draggable.min.js

262 ms

jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

260 ms

cookie-notice-front.js

cookie-notice-front.js

255 ms

sourcebuster.min.js

sourcebuster.min.js

244 ms

order-attribution.min.js

order-attribution.min.js

243 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

smush-lazy-load.min.js

244 ms

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

241 ms

de-column-clickable.js

de-column-clickable.js

239 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

231 ms

tribe-common.min.js

tribe-common.min.js

228 ms

query-string.min.js

query-string.min.js

226 ms

underscore-before.js

underscore-before.js

222 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

222 ms

underscore-after.js

underscore-after.js

214 ms

manager.min.js

manager.min.js

217 ms

breakpoints.min.js

breakpoints.min.js

212 ms

ResizeSensor.min.js

ResizeSensor.min.js

201 ms

sticky-sidebar.min.js

sticky-sidebar.min.js

198 ms

jquery.jsticky.js

jquery.jsticky.js

195 ms

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

194 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

192 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

178 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

175 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

172 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

170 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

167 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

166 ms

elements-handlers.min.js

elements-handlers.min.js

163 ms

de-sticky-frontend.js

de-sticky-frontend.js

165 ms

de-active-icon-box.js

de-active-icon-box.js

168 ms

de-active-column.js

de-active-column.js

157 ms

anime.min.js

anime.min.js

156 ms

scrollMonitor.js

scrollMonitor.js

35 ms

de_scroll_animation.preview.js

de_scroll_animation.preview.js

111 ms

intersectionobserver.js

intersectionobserver.js

109 ms

charming.min.js

charming.min.js

111 ms

lineMaker.js

lineMaker.js

107 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

107 ms

textfx.js

textfx.js

107 ms

main.js

main.js

108 ms

de_reveal_animation.preview.js

de_reveal_animation.preview.js

106 ms

de_staggering.js

de_staggering.js

106 ms

MASTS-Logos-circular-text.png

MASTS-Logos-circular-text.png

256 ms

ocean.jpg

ocean.jpg

105 ms

d

d

15 ms

d

d

88 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

110 ms

dticon.ttf

dticon.ttf

157 ms

184 ms

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

22 ms

Accessibility Review

masts.ac.uk accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

masts.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

masts.ac.uk SEO score

98

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

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 Masts.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 Masts.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

masts.ac.uk

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