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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

choose.rgu.ac.uk

Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University (RGU) Home | Top Uni for Satisfaction and Employability | Aberdeen Scotland | RGU

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

486 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Choose.rgu.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 486 ms and then it took 4.9 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

choose.rgu.ac.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,180 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.184

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

choose.rgu.ac.uk

486 ms

www.rgu.ac.uk

865 ms

template.css

199 ms

print.css

291 ms

all.min.css

460 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Choose.rgu.ac.uk, 84% (66 requests) were made to Rgu.ac.uk and 6% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Rgu.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 146.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Choose.rgu.ac.uk main page is 1.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 904.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 55.6 kB

  • Original 68.1 kB
  • After minification 58.2 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 9.8 kB, which is 14% 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 55.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 904.2 kB
  • After minification 895.8 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. Choose RGU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 53.5 kB

  • Original 456.1 kB
  • After minification 456.1 kB
  • After compression 402.6 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 53.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 188.6 kB
  • After minification 188.6 kB
  • After compression 160.1 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. Choose.rgu.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (78%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Choose RGU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

choose.rgu.ac.uk

choose.rgu.ac.uk

486 ms

www.rgu.ac.uk

www.rgu.ac.uk

865 ms

template.css

template.css

199 ms

print.css

print.css

291 ms

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460 ms

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383 ms

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471 ms

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480 ms

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642 ms

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643 ms

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649 ms

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677 ms

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150 ms

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Create

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GenerateIT

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15 ms

Accessibility Review

choose.rgu.ac.uk accessibility score

98

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

choose.rgu.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

choose.rgu.ac.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Choose.rgu.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 Choose.rgu.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

choose.rgu.ac.uk

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