Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

stfc.ukri.org

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) – UKRI

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

424 ms

stfc.ukri.org screenshot

About Website

Visit stfc.ukri.org now to see the best up-to-date STFC UKRI content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stfc.ukri.org

STFC supports research in astronomy, physics, space science and operates world-class research facilities for the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stfc.ukri.org page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 2.8 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

stfc.ukri.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stfc.ukri.org

247 ms

1167 ms

style.min.css

85 ms

main-b556afb4050a15aa10b39abe7c98175a0504258e.min.css

257 ms

tablepress-combined.min.css

230 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Stfc.ukri.org, 84% (32 requests) were made to Ukri.org and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Ukri.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

645.1 kB

After Optimization

573.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Stfc.ukri.org main page is 645.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 386.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 68.8 kB

  • Original 84.3 kB
  • After minification 80.6 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 68.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 386.9 kB
  • After minification 384.1 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. STFC UKRI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 114.9 kB
  • After minification 114.9 kB
  • After compression 114.9 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 366 B

  • Original 59.0 kB
  • After minification 59.0 kB
  • After compression 58.7 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. Stfc.ukri.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (39%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of STFC UKRI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stfc.ukri.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

stfc.ukri.org best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stfc.ukri.org SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Stfc.ukri.org 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 Stfc.ukri.org 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 STFC UKRI. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: