Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

laws.ucl.ac.uk

UCL Faculty of Laws | UCL Faculty of Laws - UCL – University College London

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

558 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

243 ms

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About Website

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UCL Laws is a law faculty for the world: a diverse and progressive community of researchers, students, leading academics and alumni embedded in a top, research-oriented university.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Laws.ucl.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 558 ms and then it took 3.1 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

laws.ucl.ac.uk performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.204

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

laws.ucl.ac.uk

558 ms

www.laws.ucl.ac.uk

316 ms

286 ms

font-awesome.min.css

141 ms

screen.min.css

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Laws.ucl.ac.uk, 45% (36 requests) were made to Cdn.ucl.ac.uk and 43% (34 requests) were made to Ucl.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (814 ms) relates to the external source Ucl.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Laws.ucl.ac.uk main page is 2.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 55.0 kB

  • Original 67.7 kB
  • After minification 64.4 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 55.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 113.3 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Laws UCL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 121.2 kB
  • After minification 121.1 kB
  • After compression 118.8 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 89 B

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 31.0 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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. Laws.ucl.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (76%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Laws UCL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

laws.ucl.ac.uk accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

laws.ucl.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

laws.ucl.ac.uk SEO score

84

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 Laws.ucl.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 Laws.ucl.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 Laws UCL. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: