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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

verify.sheffield.ac.uk

Access your digital HEAR/transcript | Post-study support | The University of Sheffield

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

701 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Verify.sheffield.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 701 ms and then it took 3.7 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

verify.sheffield.ac.uk performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.377

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

access-hear-transcript

701 ms

access-hear-transcript

182 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

39 ms

otSDKStub.js

49 ms

google_tag.script.js

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Verify.sheffield.ac.uk, 15% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 5% (1 request) were made to Geolocation.onetrust.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (701 ms) relates to the external source Sheffield.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.0 kB (40%)

Content Size

170.3 kB

After Optimization

101.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Verify.sheffield.ac.uk main page is 170.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 68.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 61.9 kB
  • After minification 58.8 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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. 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 47.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 33.0 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. Obviously, Verify Sheffield needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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. Verify.sheffield.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (31%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Verify Sheffield. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

access-hear-transcript

access-hear-transcript

701 ms

access-hear-transcript

access-hear-transcript

182 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

39 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

49 ms

google_tag.script.js

google_tag.script.js

101 ms

css_zliD6PSdybi5A8NH-Y-iLWm5FRT3gTPW3JgZB-CMCmw.css

css_zliD6PSdybi5A8NH-Y-iLWm5FRT3gTPW3JgZB-CMCmw.css

181 ms

css_h6Kx6nEgZCjFbS-dBOgjnCW_uNgZPlwDfZ0D85NrAn4.css

css_h6Kx6nEgZCjFbS-dBOgjnCW_uNgZPlwDfZ0D85NrAn4.css

428 ms

js_ULRK6J2fyezxo2Ve1htHrfzr8dfLuSSZ46YuyNQSXRw.js

js_ULRK6J2fyezxo2Ve1htHrfzr8dfLuSSZ46YuyNQSXRw.js

693 ms

5a553e36-8b6a-48b0-8157-b88aa584b6c3.json

5a553e36-8b6a-48b0-8157-b88aa584b6c3.json

46 ms

uos-crest.svg

uos-crest.svg

177 ms

My%20Document%20Illustration.jpg

My%20Document%20Illustration.jpg

183 ms

awards.png

awards.png

257 ms

russell.png

russell.png

607 ms

location

location

61 ms

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sprite-social.png

156 ms

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open-sans-v15-latin-regular.woff

143 ms

open-sans-v15-latin-300.woff

open-sans-v15-latin-300.woff

140 ms

open-sans-v15-latin-700.woff

open-sans-v15-latin-700.woff

142 ms

open-sans-v15-latin-800.woff

open-sans-v15-latin-800.woff

89 ms

open-sans-v15-latin-italic.woff

open-sans-v15-latin-italic.woff

140 ms

Accessibility Review

verify.sheffield.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

verify.sheffield.ac.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

verify.sheffield.ac.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Verify.sheffield.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 Verify.sheffield.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

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