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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

medievalchester.ac.uk

Mapping Medieval Chester: Mapping Medieval Chester: place and identity in an English borderland city c.1200-1500

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

76 ms

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Visit medievalchester.ac.uk now to see the best up-to-date Medieval Chester content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medievalchester.ac.uk

Mapping Medieval Chester: place and identity in an English borderland city c.1200-1500. An AHRC funded online research project.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medievalchester.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medievalchester.ac.uk performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medievalchester.ac.uk

320 ms

medievalchester.ac.uk

333 ms

default.css

162 ms

personality.css

391 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

410 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Medievalchester.ac.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Kdl.kcl.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (519 ms) relates to the external source Kdl.kcl.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.2 kB (28%)

Content Size

32.6 kB

After Optimization

23.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medievalchester.ac.uk main page is 32.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 18.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 10.9 kB
  • After minification 6.6 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 4.2 kB, which is 39% 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 8.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Medieval Chester images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 314 B

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 147 B

  • Original 621 B
  • After minification 579 B
  • After compression 474 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. Medievalchester.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147 B or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (46%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medieval Chester. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medievalchester.ac.uk

medievalchester.ac.uk

320 ms

medievalchester.ac.uk

medievalchester.ac.uk

333 ms

default.css

default.css

162 ms

personality.css

personality.css

391 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

410 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.min.js

315 ms

jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3.min.js

jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3.min.js

244 ms

jquery.popupwindow.min.js

jquery.popupwindow.min.js

248 ms

jquery.jmap.min.js

jquery.jmap.min.js

333 ms

config.js

config.js

326 ms

sla.js

sla.js

519 ms

ahrc_logo.gif

ahrc_logo.gif

331 ms

logoKCL.gif

logoKCL.gif

409 ms

qub.png

qub.png

410 ms

swansea.png

swansea.png

433 ms

ga.js

ga.js

23 ms

decalLeft_bg.jpg

decalLeft_bg.jpg

82 ms

banner_h1_bg.png

banner_h1_bg.png

82 ms

gfx01.png

gfx01.png

88 ms

topnav_bg.png

topnav_bg.png

83 ms

topnav_w01_bg.png

topnav_w01_bg.png

99 ms

topnav_bg_s03.png

topnav_bg_s03.png

107 ms

snBg.png

snBg.png

164 ms

icon_linkExt_ccc.png

icon_linkExt_ccc.png

163 ms

footer_bg.png

footer_bg.png

163 ms

xModOff.png

xModOff.png

172 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

print.css

print.css

84 ms

Accessibility Review

medievalchester.ac.uk accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

medievalchester.ac.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

medievalchester.ac.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Medievalchester.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 Medievalchester.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

medievalchester.ac.uk

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