Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

science-park.co.uk

Southampton Science Park | The Home of Science and Tech

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Science-park.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

science-park.co.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,350 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.069

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

science-park.co.uk

207 ms

www.science-park.co.uk

864 ms

cookie.3f0bde74ac71c57003d1.js

164 ms

sxw2dxs.css

261 ms

libs.js

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Science-park.co.uk, 13% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 13% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 252.5 kB (35%)

Content Size

729.3 kB

After Optimization

476.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Science-park.co.uk main page is 729.3 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 395.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 236.6 kB

  • Original 266.4 kB
  • After minification 233.4 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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 32.9 kB, which is 12% 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 236.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Science Park images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 395.0 kB
  • After minification 395.0 kB
  • After compression 386.1 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 65.7 kB
  • After minification 65.7 kB
  • After compression 58.7 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. Science-park.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (63%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Science Park. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

science-park.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

science-park.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

science-park.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Science-park.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 Science-park.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

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