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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% 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

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

iws.rgu.ac.uk

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

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

288 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iws.rgu.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 288 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iws.rgu.ac.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iws.rgu.ac.uk

288 ms

www.rgu.ac.uk

460 ms

www.rgu.ac.uk

829 ms

template.css

202 ms

print.css

298 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Iws.rgu.ac.uk, 84% (68 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 160.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iws.rgu.ac.uk main page is 1.8 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 57.0 kB

  • Original 69.6 kB
  • After minification 59.6 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 10.0 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 57.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Iws RGU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 469.4 kB
  • After minification 469.4 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 66.8 kB or 14% 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. Iws.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 (76%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iws 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

iws.rgu.ac.uk

iws.rgu.ac.uk

288 ms

www.rgu.ac.uk

www.rgu.ac.uk

460 ms

www.rgu.ac.uk

www.rgu.ac.uk

829 ms

template.css

template.css

202 ms

print.css

print.css

298 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

463 ms

joomla-fontawesome.min.css

joomla-fontawesome.min.css

458 ms

flickity.min.css

flickity.min.css

365 ms

joomla-alert.min.css

joomla-alert.min.css

370 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.1.css

jquery-ui-1.13.1.css

389 ms

dropeditor.css

dropeditor.css

392 ms

customstyles.css

customstyles.css

457 ms

titlestyles.css

titlestyles.css

465 ms

fcvote.css

fcvote.css

487 ms

bootstrap2-toggle.min.css

bootstrap2-toggle.min.css

486 ms

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550 ms

tabber.css

tabber.css

551 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

551 ms

flickity.pkgd.min.js

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564 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

593 ms

jquery-noconflict.min.js

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584 ms

rgu_custom.js

rgu_custom.js

642 ms

rgu_site_nav.js

rgu_site_nav.js

642 ms

rgu_sticky_elements.js

rgu_sticky_elements.js

642 ms

cookieconsent.js

cookieconsent.js

658 ms

rgu_carousel.js

rgu_carousel.js

682 ms

menu-es5.min.js

menu-es5.min.js

688 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

735 ms

bootstrap-es5.min.js

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839 ms

messages-es5.min.js

messages-es5.min.js

737 ms

popover.min.js

popover.min.js

753 ms

addsearch.js

addsearch.js

780 ms

courses.js

courses.js

782 ms

messages.min.js

messages.min.js

827 ms

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jquery-ui.min.js

1028 ms

tmpl-common.js

tmpl-common.js

849 ms

jquery-easing.js

jquery-easing.js

878 ms

fcvote.js

fcvote.js

877 ms

flexi-lib.js

flexi-lib.js

1019 ms

bootstrap2-toggle.min.js

bootstrap2-toggle.min.js

719 ms

fcfav.js

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tabber-minimized.js

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617 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

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rgu_logo.png

122 ms

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505 ms

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505 ms

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546 ms

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480 ms

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574 ms

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1032 ms

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520 ms

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602 ms

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601 ms

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601 ms

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723 ms

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722 ms

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83 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

7 ms

www-embed-player.js

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36 ms

base.js

base.js

61 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

174 ms

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145 ms

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74 ms

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76 ms

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zonapro-semibold-webfont.woff

179 ms

id

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30 ms

zonapro-regular-webfont.woff

zonapro-regular-webfont.woff

160 ms

Create

Create

128 ms

zonapro-extrabold-webfont.woff

zonapro-extrabold-webfont.woff

179 ms

zonapro-bold-webfont.woff

zonapro-bold-webfont.woff

217 ms

page-not-found

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167 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

17 ms

page-not-found

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159 ms

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159 ms

Accessibility Review

iws.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

iws.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

iws.rgu.ac.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Iws.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 Iws.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

iws.rgu.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Iws 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: