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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

shu.ac.uk

Home | Sheffield Hallam University

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

286 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Shu content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shu.ac.uk

Official Sheffield Hallam University site with information about the undergraduate, part-time, postgraduate and distance learning courses available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shu.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 286 ms and then it took 2.6 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

shu.ac.uk performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shu.ac.uk

286 ms

www.shu.ac.uk

570 ms

megamenu.css

380 ms

hp.min.css

384 ms

hp-update.css

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Shu.ac.uk, 7% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 7% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (879 ms) belongs to the original domain Shu.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 428.2 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

647.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shu.ac.uk main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 592.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 77.0 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 31.6 kB, which is 41% 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 66.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 592.6 kB
  • After minification 544.6 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. Shu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 129.4 kB
  • After minification 122.9 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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 69.0 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 245.1 kB

  • Original 277.1 kB
  • After minification 239.1 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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. Shu.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 245.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (58%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shu.ac.uk

shu.ac.uk

286 ms

www.shu.ac.uk

www.shu.ac.uk

570 ms

megamenu.css

megamenu.css

380 ms

hp.min.css

hp.min.css

384 ms

hp-update.css

hp-update.css

188 ms

hp.css

hp.css

191 ms

video.css

video.css

189 ms

custom.modernizr.js

custom.modernizr.js

393 ms

jquery-1.10.2.js

jquery-1.10.2.js

5 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

9 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

739 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

17 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

381 ms

foundation.clearing.js

foundation.clearing.js

284 ms

foundation.topbar-level.js

foundation.topbar-level.js

316 ms

megamenu.js

megamenu.js

289 ms

simple-accordion.js

simple-accordion.js

290 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

37 ms

shu-logo-corp.png

shu-logo-corp.png

309 ms

ug-prospectus.jpg

ug-prospectus.jpg

377 ms

pg-study-guide.jpg

pg-study-guide.jpg

593 ms

int-prospectus.jpg

int-prospectus.jpg

436 ms

ug-we-are-sheffield-hallam-110-lifestyle-web.jpg

ug-we-are-sheffield-hallam-110-lifestyle-web.jpg

491 ms

int-download-cover.jpg

int-download-cover.jpg

593 ms

research-menu-image1.jpg

research-menu-image1.jpg

690 ms

owen-megamenu-image.jpg

owen-megamenu-image.jpg

684 ms

review-autumn-2015-1.jpg

review-autumn-2015-1.jpg

822 ms

35561.js

35561.js

47 ms

shu-logo-corp-large.png

shu-logo-corp-large.png

596 ms

icon-menu-mob.png

icon-menu-mob.png

690 ms

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62 ms

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84 ms

opendayvideo.jpg

opendayvideo.jpg

722 ms

mid-visit-sml.jpg

mid-visit-sml.jpg

878 ms

students-promo-hp.jpg

students-promo-hp.jpg

879 ms

icon-search-mob.png

icon-search-mob.png

540 ms

icon-search.png

icon-search.png

630 ms

jn56-events-215-open-day-june.jpg

jn56-events-215-open-day-june.jpg

751 ms

applicants-hp-small.jpg

applicants-hp-small.jpg

751 ms

bg-btm-container.jpg

bg-btm-container.jpg

728 ms

slider-txt-bg.png

slider-txt-bg.png

823 ms

activityi;src=4108014;type=gener822;cat=gener275;ord=5443514573853.463

activityi;src=4108014;type=gener822;cat=gener275;ord=5443514573853.463

62 ms

70 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

115 ms

33 ms

ga.js

ga.js

39 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

17 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

160 ms

iframe

iframe

71 ms

405 ms

420 ms

52 ms

64 ms

72 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

28 ms

22 ms

iframe

iframe

33 ms

31 ms

73 ms

38 ms

src=5026842;type=invmedia;cat=revmhhks;ord=4198663446586.579

src=5026842;type=invmedia;cat=revmhhks;ord=4198663446586.579

103 ms

39 ms

14 ms

sync

sync

16 ms

generic

generic

35 ms

pixel

pixel

44 ms

pixel

pixel

23 ms

google

google

10 ms

match

match

25 ms

209 ms

202 ms

106 ms

Accessibility Review

shu.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

shu.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

shu.ac.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Shu.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 Shu.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

shu.ac.uk

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