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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

millionplus.ac.uk

MillionPlus: The Association for Modern Universities in the UK

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

341 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Millionplus.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 341 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

millionplus.ac.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

millionplus.ac.uk

341 ms

www.millionplus.ac.uk

708 ms

font-awesome.min.css

172 ms

normalize.css

240 ms

layout.css

417 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Millionplus.ac.uk, 32% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (718 ms) belongs to the original domain Millionplus.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 354.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Millionplus.ac.uk main page is 3.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 20.2 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. 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 14.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 153.4 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Million Plus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 107.7 kB

  • Original 179.4 kB
  • After minification 172.3 kB
  • After compression 71.8 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 107.7 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 78.2 kB

  • Original 92.9 kB
  • After minification 69.3 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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. Millionplus.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 78.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (65%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Million Plus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

millionplus.ac.uk

millionplus.ac.uk

341 ms

www.millionplus.ac.uk

www.millionplus.ac.uk

708 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

172 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

240 ms

layout.css

layout.css

417 ms

component.css

component.css

255 ms

jquery.2.1.4.min.js

jquery.2.1.4.min.js

427 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

256 ms

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344 ms

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324 ms

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rs-default-new.css

344 ms

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349 ms

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40 ms

jquery.anystretch.min.js

jquery.anystretch.min.js

408 ms

classie.js

classie.js

434 ms

uisearch.js

uisearch.js

435 ms

css

css

29 ms

ga.js

ga.js

74 ms

millionplus-desktop.png

millionplus-desktop.png

93 ms

flag.png

flag.png

147 ms

Sunderland_City_Campus_-_Students_on_the_Quad_by_Sciences_Complex_slider.jpg

Sunderland_City_Campus_-_Students_on_the_Quad_by_Sciences_Complex_slider.jpg

554 ms

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525 ms

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443 ms

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594 ms

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697 ms

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widgets.js

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Accessibility Review

millionplus.ac.uk accessibility score

61

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

millionplus.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

millionplus.ac.uk SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Millionplus.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 Millionplus.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

millionplus.ac.uk

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