Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% 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

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

solihull.ac.uk

Solihull College & University Centre | School Leaver, Part Time Adult Courses, Apprenticeships & Bespoke Employment Training

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

545 ms

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About Website

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Solihull College & University Centre offers School Leavers & Adults, Full Time and Part Time Courses, Apprenticeships & Bespoke Employment Training. Call 0121 678 7000.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solihull.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solihull.ac.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.solihull.ac.uk

1138 ms

bootstrap.css

636 ms

owl.carousel.css

173 ms

jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.css

175 ms

leaflet.css

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Solihull.ac.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Solihull.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (22%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Solihull.ac.uk main page is 7.5 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 6.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 50.8 kB

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 50.9 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.1 kB, which is 16% 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 50.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 858.5 kB

  • Original 6.5 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Obviously, Solihull needs image optimization as it can save up to 858.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 470.3 kB

  • Original 645.0 kB
  • After minification 540.1 kB
  • After compression 174.7 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 470.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 289.9 kB

  • Original 345.6 kB
  • After minification 278.8 kB
  • After compression 55.6 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. Solihull.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 289.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (45%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solihull. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

solihull.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

solihull.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

solihull.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 Solihull.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 Solihull.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

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