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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

researchconnect.co.uk

Access Specialist Research Funding For Research Organisations

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

406 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Researchconnect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 2.8 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

researchconnect.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

researchconnect.co.uk

182 ms

www.myresearchconnect.com

522 ms

layerslider.css

151 ms

style.min.css

231 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Researchconnect.co.uk, 80% (85 requests) were made to Myresearchconnect.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (865 ms) relates to the external source Myresearchconnect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.1 kB (35%)

Content Size

404.4 kB

After Optimization

263.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Researchconnect.co.uk main page is 404.4 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 177.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 138.4 kB

  • Original 166.9 kB
  • After minification 163.9 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 138.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 68 B
  • After minification 68 B

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. Research Connect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 177.7 kB
  • After minification 177.7 kB
  • After compression 175.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.8 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. Researchconnect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 89 (93%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Research Connect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 84 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

researchconnect.co.uk

researchconnect.co.uk

182 ms

www.myresearchconnect.com

www.myresearchconnect.com

522 ms

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layerslider.css

151 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

231 ms

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39 ms

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229 ms

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309 ms

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234 ms

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310 ms

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468 ms

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305 ms

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305 ms

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315 ms

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391 ms

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459 ms

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468 ms

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590 ms

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590 ms

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667 ms

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666 ms

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667 ms

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jquery.easing.js

667 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

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666 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

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799 ms

jquery.ilightbox.js

jquery.ilightbox.js

802 ms

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799 ms

jquery.mousewheel.js

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797 ms

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797 ms

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jquery.fade.js

728 ms

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707 ms

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702 ms

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702 ms

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633 ms

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687 ms

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615 ms

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614 ms

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608 ms

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540 ms

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532 ms

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862 ms

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865 ms

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800 ms

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791 ms

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231 ms

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360 ms

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231 ms

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675 ms

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671 ms

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670 ms

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671 ms

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fusion-animations.js

670 ms

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669 ms

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670 ms

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669 ms

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133 ms

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615 ms

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616 ms

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616 ms

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614 ms

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615 ms

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582 ms

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location

341 ms

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656 ms

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657 ms

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653 ms

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652 ms

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653 ms

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127 ms

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646 ms

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604 ms

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605 ms

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603 ms

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604 ms

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fusion-video.js

603 ms

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674 ms

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680 ms

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681 ms

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Create

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Accessibility Review

researchconnect.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

researchconnect.co.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

researchconnect.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Researchconnect.co.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 Researchconnect.co.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

researchconnect.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Research Connect. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: