Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

jobs.northampton.ac.uk

Jobs and recruitment | The University of Northampton

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

432 ms

jobs.northampton.ac.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to jobs.northampton.ac.uk homepage info - get ready to check Jobs Northampton best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about jobs.northampton.ac.uk

We are dedicated to recruiting, retaining and developing high quality staff. Our aim is to be the number one university in the UK for social enterprise ¿ providing exciting opportunities for our staff...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jobs.northampton.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec 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

jobs.northampton.ac.uk performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jobs.northampton.ac.uk

1319 ms

jobs.northampton.ac.uk

376 ms

vacancies.html

509 ms

jquery.min.js

28 ms

placeholder.js

262 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Jobs.northampton.ac.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Jobs.northampton.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 408.5 kB (62%)

Content Size

660.9 kB

After Optimization

252.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Jobs.northampton.ac.uk main page is 660.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 389.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 46.4 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 41.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 205.1 kB
  • After minification 172.5 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. Obviously, Jobs Northampton needs image optimization as it can save up to 32.7 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-86%

Potential reduce by 334.5 kB

  • Original 389.3 kB
  • After minification 360.8 kB
  • After compression 54.9 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. Jobs.northampton.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 334.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (61%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jobs Northampton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

jobs.northampton.ac.uk accessibility score

87

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

jobs.northampton.ac.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

jobs.northampton.ac.uk SEO score

99

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Jobs.northampton.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 Jobs.northampton.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 Jobs Northampton. 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: