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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

rvc.ac.uk

Royal Veterinary College, RVC

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

247 ms

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About Website

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The RVC is a veterinary school in London, UK which provides undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in veterinary medicine, science and nursing; research and scholarship; and clinical services to the ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rvc.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rvc.ac.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.563

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rvc.ac.uk

233 ms

www.rvc.ac.uk

469 ms

cookiecuttr.css

87 ms

CarouFredSel.css

171 ms

bootstrap.min.css

456 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Rvc.ac.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Static.elfsight.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (638 ms) belongs to the original domain Rvc.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 401.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rvc.ac.uk main page is 2.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 60.3 kB
  • After minification 54.2 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 48.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. RVC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 140.8 kB

  • Original 222.3 kB
  • After minification 216.1 kB
  • After compression 81.5 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 140.8 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 170.0 kB

  • Original 201.7 kB
  • After minification 198.8 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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. Rvc.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 170.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (31%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RVC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rvc.ac.uk

rvc.ac.uk

233 ms

www.rvc.ac.uk

www.rvc.ac.uk

469 ms

cookiecuttr.css

cookiecuttr.css

87 ms

CarouFredSel.css

CarouFredSel.css

171 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

456 ms

orchard-bootstrap.css

orchard-bootstrap.css

251 ms

rvc.css

rvc.css

461 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

466 ms

embed.js

embed.js

24 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

19 ms

platform.js

platform.js

55 ms

platform.js

platform.js

43 ms

jquery.cookie.min.js

jquery.cookie.min.js

317 ms

jquery.cookiecuttr.min.js

jquery.cookiecuttr.min.js

315 ms

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

406 ms

ajaxify.js

ajaxify.js

399 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

506 ms

custom.js

custom.js

506 ms

platform.js

platform.js

15 ms

logo.png

logo.png

103 ms

UG-open-day.jpg

UG-open-day.jpg

305 ms

banner-petri-dish.jpg

banner-petri-dish.jpg

241 ms

banner-intercalated.jpg

banner-intercalated.jpg

178 ms

International-prospectus-2025-26-HOME.jpg

International-prospectus-2025-26-HOME.jpg

157 ms

Undergraduate-prospectus-2025-26-HOME.jpg

Undergraduate-prospectus-2025-26-HOME.jpg

243 ms

rvc-for-me-homepage2.jpg

rvc-for-me-homepage2.jpg

315 ms

study-2020.jpg

study-2020.jpg

262 ms

research-homepage.jpg

research-homepage.jpg

351 ms

focus-box-home-services.jpg

focus-box-home-services.jpg

321 ms

icon-news.png

icon-news.png

324 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

342 ms

icon-events.png

icon-events.png

387 ms

Beaumont%20homepage%20button2.jpg

Beaumont%20homepage%20button2.jpg

471 ms

QMH%20homepage%20button.jpg

QMH%20homepage%20button.jpg

476 ms

Equine%20homepage%20button-1.jpg

Equine%20homepage%20button-1.jpg

407 ms

ACT%20homepage%20button3.jpg

ACT%20homepage%20button3.jpg

425 ms

Alumni-button.jpg

Alumni-button.jpg

433 ms

RVC-for-all-home.JPG

RVC-for-all-home.JPG

471 ms

focus-image-jobs.jpg

focus-image-jobs.jpg

493 ms

focus-image-about.jpg

focus-image-about.jpg

517 ms

rvc-crest-outline-reversed.png

rvc-crest-outline-reversed.png

518 ms

icon-twitter-white.png

icon-twitter-white.png

550 ms

icon-facebook-white.png

icon-facebook-white.png

552 ms

icon-instagram-white.png

icon-instagram-white.png

553 ms

icon-youtube-white.png

icon-youtube-white.png

573 ms

icon-site-white.png

icon-site-white.png

605 ms

icon-copyright.png

icon-copyright.png

600 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

616 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

617 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

614 ms

icon-instagram.png

icon-instagram.png

635 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

9 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

638 ms

Accessibility Review

rvc.ac.uk accessibility score

84

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

rvc.ac.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rvc.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rvc.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 Rvc.ac.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

rvc.ac.uk

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