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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,570 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

about.futurelearn.com

85 ms

468 ms

info

833 ms

blog

424 ms

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157 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original About.futurelearn.com, 34% (29 requests) were made to Cdn-wordpress-info.futurelearn.com and 33% (28 requests) were made to Ugc.futurelearn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (833 ms) relates to the external source Futurelearn.com.

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of About.futurelearn.com main page is 1.7 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. 75% 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 916.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 159.9 kB

Original 196.5 kB
After minification 171.9 kB
After compression 36.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.6 kB, which is 13% 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 159.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 34.6 kB

Original 916.2 kB
After minification 881.6 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. About Future Learn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

Original 327.5 kB
After minification 327.5 kB
After compression 294.1 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 51.0 kB

Original 234.3 kB
After minification 234.3 kB
After compression 183.3 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. About.futurelearn.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.0 kB or 22% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of About Future Learn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.