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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

studybirmingham.uk

Study in Birmingham - Your Lifestyle Guide to Birmingham

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

381 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Study Birmingham content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about studybirmingham.uk

Birmingham is the second-largest city of the UK and has international students from all around the world. Check out our lifestyle and study guide to Birmingham.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studybirmingham.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studybirmingham.uk performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studybirmingham.uk

1504 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

302 ms

style.css

411 ms

style.min.css

299 ms

css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Studybirmingham.uk, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Studybirmingham.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studybirmingham.uk main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 782.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 50.5 kB
  • After minification 50.5 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 41.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 782.6 kB
  • After minification 764.9 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. Study Birmingham images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 219.3 kB
  • After minification 219.3 kB
  • After compression 214.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 111 B

  • Original 99.2 kB
  • After minification 99.2 kB
  • After compression 99.1 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. Studybirmingham.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (85%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Study Birmingham. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

studybirmingham.uk

studybirmingham.uk

1504 ms

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wp-emoji-release.min.js

302 ms

style.css

style.css

411 ms

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299 ms

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44 ms

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307 ms

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308 ms

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586 ms

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587 ms

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602 ms

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720 ms

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44 ms

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44 ms

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988 ms

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regular.min.css

975 ms

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brands.min.css

993 ms

solid.min.css

solid.min.css

998 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1247 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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1155 ms

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74 ms

v4-shims.min.js

v4-shims.min.js

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magnific-popup.js

magnific-popup.js

1256 ms

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jquery.fitvids.js

1255 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

1338 ms

object-fit-images.js

object-fit-images.js

1412 ms

theme.js

theme.js

1243 ms

theia-sticky-sidebar.js

theia-sticky-sidebar.js

1499 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

1598 ms

jarallax.js

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1526 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

1520 ms

jquery.masonry.min.js

jquery.masonry.min.js

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wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

1699 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

1781 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

1907 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

1814 ms

dialog.min.js

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waypoints.min.js

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share-link.min.js

share-link.min.js

1741 ms

swiper.min.js

swiper.min.js

1913 ms

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frontend.min.js

1944 ms

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1912 ms

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79 ms

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74 ms

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32 ms

Accessibility Review

studybirmingham.uk accessibility score

86

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

studybirmingham.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

studybirmingham.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Studybirmingham.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 Studybirmingham.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

studybirmingham.uk

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