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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

theuniguide.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

448 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theuniguide.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 3 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

theuniguide.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value22.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,120 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theuniguide.co.uk

65 ms

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599 ms

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82 ms

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Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Theuniguide.co.uk, 58% (33 requests) were made to Cdn.theuniguide.co.uk and 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (820 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.theuniguide.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 900.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theuniguide.co.uk main page is 4.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 53.3 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 42.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 285.2 kB
  • After minification 282.9 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. The Uni Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 803.3 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 MB
  • After compression 2.5 MB

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 803.3 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 449.0 kB
  • After minification 449.0 kB
  • After compression 396.8 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. Theuniguide.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (46%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Uni Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theuniguide.co.uk

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65 ms

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599 ms

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Accessibility Review

theuniguide.co.uk accessibility score

84

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

theuniguide.co.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

theuniguide.co.uk SEO score

77

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theuniguide.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 Theuniguide.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

theuniguide.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Uni Guide. 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: