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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

arcacademyuk.com

ARC Group UK | Rail, Plant & Civils and Construction Training

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

266 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing ARC Academy UK content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about arcacademyuk.com

We are specialists in Rail Training, CSCS, Plant & Civil Training, Health & Safety Training and Medical and Drug & Alcohol Screenings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arcacademyuk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arcacademyuk.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,110 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.327

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value66.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arcacademyuk.com

266 ms

thearcgroup.co.uk

1241 ms

js

90 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

199 ms

style.min.css

446 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Arcacademyuk.com, 66% (52 requests) were made to Thearcgroup.co.uk and 5% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Thearcgroup.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 523.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

22.9 MB

After Optimization

22.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arcacademyuk.com main page is 22.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 22.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 103.9 kB
  • After minification 98.3 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 82.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 22.2 MB
  • After minification 22.1 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. ARC Academy UK images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 109.8 kB

  • Original 221.0 kB
  • After minification 220.9 kB
  • After compression 111.2 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 109.8 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 299.3 kB

  • Original 348.4 kB
  • After minification 344.3 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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. Arcacademyuk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 299.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (43%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ARC Academy UK. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

arcacademyuk.com

arcacademyuk.com

266 ms

thearcgroup.co.uk

thearcgroup.co.uk

1241 ms

js

js

90 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

199 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

446 ms

style.css

style.css

712 ms

css

css

95 ms

cff-style.min.css

cff-style.min.css

363 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

134 ms

style.css

style.css

271 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

272 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

375 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

366 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

90 ms

remodal.min.js

remodal.min.js

94 ms

js

js

96 ms

aos.css

aos.css

93 ms

subscribe-validate.js

subscribe-validate.js

96 ms

aos.css

aos.css

54 ms

index.js

index.js

228 ms

index.js

index.js

312 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

17 ms

jquery.waypoints.min.js

jquery.waypoints.min.js

35 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

312 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

311 ms

js

js

54 ms

custom.js

custom.js

325 ms

cff-scripts.min.js

cff-scripts.min.js

393 ms

main-dist.js

main-dist.js

396 ms

js

js

112 ms

loader_sblue.gif

loader_sblue.gif

108 ms

arc-group-logo.svg

arc-group-logo.svg

110 ms

arc-academy-uk.png

arc-academy-uk.png

126 ms

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894 ms

arc-plant-civils-training.png

arc-plant-civils-training.png

125 ms

Panel-3-Low-Res.jpg

Panel-3-Low-Res.jpg

1287 ms

arc-rail.png

arc-rail.png

343 ms

18_10_03_ARC_26-1-High-Res.jpg

18_10_03_ARC_26-1-High-Res.jpg

2289 ms

arc-medical.png

arc-medical.png

345 ms

HEALTHCHECK-1.jpg

HEALTHCHECK-1.jpg

887 ms

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1448 ms

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352 ms

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628 ms

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909 ms

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908 ms

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ARC-RAIL-NSAR-2-1-387x265.png

910 ms

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ARC-Plant-MASTER-On-Dark-Background-387x265.jpg

912 ms

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1287 ms

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1288 ms

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Copy-of-ARC-GROUP-LOGO-1-387x265.png

1374 ms

Network-Scaffolding.png

Network-Scaffolding.png

1374 ms

company_logos.jpg

company_logos.jpg

1374 ms

logo_white.png

logo_white.png

1373 ms

up-arrow.png

up-arrow.png

1446 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

21 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

180 ms

collect

collect

84 ms

banner_overlay.png

banner_overlay.png

1108 ms

mail_bg.png

mail_bg.png

1107 ms

thearcgroup.co.uk

thearcgroup.co.uk

1788 ms

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168 ms

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169 ms

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275 ms

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277 ms

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76 ms

Flaticon.svg

Flaticon.svg

1158 ms

Flaticon.woff

Flaticon.woff

1160 ms

footer-bkg-2.png

footer-bkg-2.png

1171 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

90 ms

gen_204

gen_204

180 ms

18_10_03_ARCQuarry_51-1-Low-Res-Web-960x600.jpg

18_10_03_ARCQuarry_51-1-Low-Res-Web-960x600.jpg

224 ms

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455 ms

18_10_03_ARC_8-1-Low-Res-Web-960x600.jpg

18_10_03_ARC_8-1-Low-Res-Web-960x600.jpg

341 ms

18_10_03_ARC_38-1-High-Res-1800x600.jpg

18_10_03_ARC_38-1-High-Res-1800x600.jpg

340 ms

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quote1.png

400 ms

quote2.png

quote2.png

440 ms

136 ms

91 ms

print.css

print.css

92 ms

Accessibility Review

arcacademyuk.com accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

arcacademyuk.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

arcacademyuk.com SEO score

79

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

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 Arcacademyuk.com 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 Arcacademyuk.com 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

arcacademyuk.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ARC Academy UK. 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: