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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

ucas.co.uk

Choose your future | UCAS

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

352 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

569 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucas.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 352 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ucas.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,120 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ucas.co.uk

352 ms

www.ucas.com

94 ms

base.css

57 ms

uc.js

54 ms

css_FC0B0pDij5DDS6zWznKNTzUjfKu_fGiXZ73gDFKFFME.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ucas.co.uk, 34% (24 requests) were made to Ucas.com and 28% (20 requests) were made to D1l6hqpjksdq9d.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (514 ms) relates to the external source Ucas.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 446.4 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

664.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ucas.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 394.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 137.5 kB

  • Original 171.5 kB
  • After minification 147.2 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.3 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 137.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 52.5 kB

  • Original 237.5 kB
  • After minification 185.0 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, UCAS needs image optimization as it can save up to 52.5 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 165.2 kB

  • Original 394.1 kB
  • After minification 394.1 kB
  • After compression 228.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 165.2 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 91.1 kB

  • Original 308.2 kB
  • After minification 217.7 kB
  • After compression 217.1 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. Ucas.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 91.1 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (52%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UCAS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ucas.co.uk

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352 ms

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94 ms

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base.css

57 ms

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54 ms

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40 ms

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102 ms

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90 ms

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90 ms

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294 ms

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331 ms

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24 ms

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23 ms

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29 ms

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66 ms

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85 ms

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65 ms

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66 ms

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235 ms

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266 ms

user-menu.js

user-menu.js

64 ms

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gigya.js

395 ms

ucas-gigyaHandlers.min.js

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234 ms

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304 ms

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303 ms

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303 ms

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303 ms

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307 ms

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63 ms

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485 ms

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109 ms

Accessibility Review

ucas.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

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

Best Practices

ucas.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ucas.co.uk SEO score

71

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Ucas.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 Ucas.co.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

ucas.co.uk

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