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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

cain.ulster.ac.uk

CAIN: Northern Ireland Conflict, Politics, and Society. Information on 'the troubles'.

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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About Website

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CAIN: Northern Ireland Conflict, Politics, and Society. Information on 'the troubles'. This site contains information and source material on the Troubles in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cain.ulster.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 2.4 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

cain.ulster.ac.uk performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cain.ulster.ac.uk

276 ms

cain.ulster.ac.uk

487 ms

functions.js

186 ms

jquery.min.js

18 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

562 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Cain.ulster.ac.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (918 ms) belongs to the original domain Cain.ulster.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

819.5 kB

After Optimization

641.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cain.ulster.ac.uk main page is 819.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 578.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 22.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 578.2 kB
  • After minification 559.0 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. CAIN Ulster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 122.0 kB

  • Original 195.4 kB
  • After minification 195.2 kB
  • After compression 73.3 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 122.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 17.4 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Cain.ulster.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (32%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

cain.ulster.ac.uk

cain.ulster.ac.uk

276 ms

cain.ulster.ac.uk

cain.ulster.ac.uk

487 ms

functions.js

functions.js

186 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

18 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

562 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

381 ms

CAINBanner.jpg

CAINBanner.jpg

96 ms

extlink.gif

extlink.gif

95 ms

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98 ms

help_rt.jpg

help_rt.jpg

93 ms

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186 ms

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187 ms

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189 ms

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contributions_rt.jpg

189 ms

comments_rt.jpg

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277 ms

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373 ms

citations_rt.jpg

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283 ms

access_rt.jpg

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284 ms

funding_rt.jpg

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284 ms

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286 ms

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460 ms

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376 ms

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471 ms

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471 ms

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476 ms

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466 ms

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469 ms

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551 ms

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558 ms

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564 ms

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658 ms

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564 ms

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570 ms

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643 ms

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651 ms

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657 ms

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658 ms

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918 ms

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750 ms

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732 ms

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665 ms

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671 ms

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747 ms

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753 ms

home_off.gif

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666 ms

about_off.gif

about_off.gif

665 ms

index_off.gif

index_off.gif

671 ms

map_off.gif

map_off.gif

748 ms

faq_off.gif

faq_off.gif

668 ms

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search_off.gif

662 ms

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contact_off.gif

661 ms

backtopl.gif

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671 ms

arkconstituent.gif

arkconstituent.gif

730 ms

Accessibility Review

cain.ulster.ac.uk accessibility score

90

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

cain.ulster.ac.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cain.ulster.ac.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cain.ulster.ac.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cain.ulster.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

cain.ulster.ac.uk

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