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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

rncm.ac.uk

The Royal Northern College of Music - Music Conservatoire

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

331 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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

Welcome to the Royal Northern College of Music, a constituent conservatoire of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rncm.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 331 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rncm.ac.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.147

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rncm.ac.uk

331 ms

www.rncm.ac.uk

284 ms

ilt5csb.js

149 ms

39260506-1cc7-4b0b-bf9c-57df9fb9bd9c.js

80 ms

wp-filebase.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Rncm.ac.uk, 22% (23 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Rncm.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 689.5 kB (4%)

Content Size

17.3 MB

After Optimization

16.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rncm.ac.uk main page is 17.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 16.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 102.8 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 109.4 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 102.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 141.6 kB

  • Original 16.5 MB
  • After minification 16.4 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. Rncm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 367.1 kB

  • Original 536.8 kB
  • After minification 531.7 kB
  • After compression 169.6 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 367.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 77.9 kB

  • Original 97.8 kB
  • After minification 94.5 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. Rncm.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (32%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rncm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

rncm.ac.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

rncm.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

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

rncm.ac.uk SEO score

83

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Rncm.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 Rncm.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

rncm.ac.uk

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