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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 30 October 202643 issues · 90 checks

This review found 43 issues worth fixing on mastersunion.org, 18 of them high impact, across 90 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
4.7 s3.1 sMay 9Oct 243.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20264.2 s
May 16, 20264.2 s
May 23, 20264.3 s
May 30, 20264.4 s
Jun 6, 20264.5 s
Jun 13, 20264.5 s
Jun 20, 20264.4 s
Jun 27, 20264.4 s
Jul 4, 20264.4 s
Jul 11, 20264.3 s
Jul 18, 20264.0 s
Jul 25, 20263.8 s
Aug 1, 20263.6 s
Aug 8, 20263.4 s
Aug 15, 20263.4 s
Aug 22, 20263.3 s
Aug 29, 20263.3 s
Sep 5, 20263.3 s
Sep 12, 20263.4 s
Sep 19, 20263.5 s
Sep 26, 20263.5 s
Oct 3, 20263.5 s
Oct 10, 20263.4 s
Oct 17, 20263.4 s
Oct 24, 20263.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
474 ms363 msMay 9Oct 24450 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026461 ms
May 16, 2026452 ms
May 23, 2026439 ms
May 30, 2026435 ms
Jun 6, 2026439 ms
Jun 13, 2026443 ms
Jun 20, 2026442 ms
Jun 27, 2026426 ms
Jul 4, 2026406 ms
Jul 11, 2026394 ms
Jul 18, 2026386 ms
Jul 25, 2026379 ms
Aug 1, 2026376 ms
Aug 8, 2026383 ms
Aug 15, 2026392 ms
Aug 22, 2026405 ms
Aug 29, 2026411 ms
Sep 5, 2026411 ms
Sep 12, 2026411 ms
Sep 19, 2026405 ms
Sep 26, 2026407 ms
Oct 3, 2026418 ms
Oct 10, 2026425 ms
Oct 17, 2026435 ms
Oct 24, 2026450 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of mastersunion.org (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. mastersunion.org at 2.0 s2.0 s
  2. mastersunion.org at 4.0 s4.0 s
  3. mastersunion.org at 6.0 s6.0 s
  4. mastersunion.org at 7.9 s7.9 s
  5. mastersunion.org at 9.9 s9.9 s
  6. mastersunion.org at 11.9 s11.9 s
  7. mastersunion.org at 13.9 s13.9 s
  8. mastersunion.org at 15.9 s15.9 s

Speed

14 to fix36
  • Improve image delivery

    7.8 s · 3.6 MB

    88 images could be 3.6 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 7.8 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.5 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.5 s.

  • 11,298 HTML elements

    The page has 11,298 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 36

    36/100

    Your mobile performance score is 36. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 9.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 9.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    9.9 MB

    363 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (9.9 MB).

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, fliphtml5.com and matterport.com and others), adding 13.0 MB and 3.0 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.6 MB

    About 3.6 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • fliphtml5.com adds 982 ms

    982 ms

    fliphtml5.com costs a phone 982 ms of main-thread work and 5.4 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 983 ms

    983 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 983 ms of main-thread work and 1.9 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • matterport.com adds 603 ms

    603 ms

    matterport.com costs a phone 603 ms of main-thread work and 4.8 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 439 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify CSS

    310 ms · 66 KiB

    66 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • lottie.host adds 1 ms

    1 ms

    lottie.host costs a phone 1 ms of main-thread work and 644 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    67 KiB

    About 67 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Minify JavaScript

    33 KiB

    33 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 531 ms

    531 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 531 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user INP: 584 ms

    584 ms

    Real visitors wait 584 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 51.7 s

    51.7 s

    Your largest element takes 51.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “mobileHomepageBackground”.

  • Speed Index: 24.9 s

    24.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 24.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 115.0 s

    115.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 115.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.3 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 25 images without width and height

    25 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 461 ms to 450 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

6 checks passed
  • Real-user LCP: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    Real visitors wait 2.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.06

    0.06

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.06 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 628 ms

    628 ms

    Real visitors wait 628 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 18% faster for real visitors

    -18%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 4.2 s to 3.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.012

    0.012

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.012, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

5 to fix28
  • Page weight: 35.0 MB in 764 requests

    35.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 35.0 MB in 764 requests on a phone: images 24.4 MB (406), scripts 8.4 MB (230) and other files 839 KiB (78). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 2 images over 500 KB

    2 images weigh 1.5 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (1.7 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • 19 images below the first screen load straight away

    19 images further down the page (1.1 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 3 images far larger than shown

    196 KiB

    3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example download.webp at 1,600 px wide, shown at 270 px. Resized copies would save about 196 KiB.

  • About 9.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    9.91 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 9.91 g of CO₂e: 1189.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

8 to fixGoogle 7888
  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (28 elements)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 28 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 18 tap targets too small

    18 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (6 elements)

    Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Frames without titles

    3 frames have no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what they contain.

  • 2 text elements with low contrast

    2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (30 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 30 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • 4 links without text

    4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 541 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 43 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 8 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10089
  • Title is long (70 characters)

    Your title is 70 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Masters’ Union University, an Industry-Focused Educational Institution”.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 427 internal links, 75 external

    The homepage links to 427 pages on mastersunion.org and 75 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 116 characters

    Your meta description is 116 characters: “Learn by doing with Masters’ Union University’s industry-focused undergraduate, postgraduate & executive programmes.”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Learn by Doing”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://mastersunion.org/.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://mastersunion.org/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

3 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,825 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://mastersunion.org/llms.txt (1 KiB, 0 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 147 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

4 to fixGoogle 6983
  • 24 small tap targets

    24 of 40 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • 10 distorted images

    10 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

100
  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 3,094 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 3,094 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Download Yearbook”.

  • 11 calls to action

    The homepage has 11 calls to action, for example “Book a Visit”, “Download Yearbook” and “Get Your Pass”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 20 customer or partner logos and “100+ companies”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity and LinkedIn Insight.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 20 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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