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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

blc.ac.uk

Buxton & Leek College - Discover Your Future Self

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

268 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

481 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Blc content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blc.ac.uk

Graded Good by Ofsted, Buxton & Leek College offers vocational programmes and apprenticeships for all ages, abilities and ambitions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blc.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 268 ms and then it took 6.4 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

blc.ac.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blc.ac.uk

268 ms

www.blc.ac.uk

2162 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

264 ms

style.min.css

440 ms

classic-themes.min.css

266 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Blc.ac.uk, 10% (12 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 4% (5 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Blc.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (39%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blc.ac.uk main page is 4.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.0 kB

  • Original 134.5 kB
  • After minification 128.8 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 110.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 77.8 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Blc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 955.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 699.6 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 955.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 719.0 kB

  • Original 887.1 kB
  • After minification 878.3 kB
  • After compression 168.2 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. Blc.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 719.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (60%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blc.ac.uk

blc.ac.uk

268 ms

www.blc.ac.uk

www.blc.ac.uk

2162 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

sbi-styles.min.css

264 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

440 ms

classic-themes.min.css

classic-themes.min.css

266 ms

events_manager.css

events_manager.css

368 ms

main.css

main.css

370 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

368 ms

theme.css

theme.css

353 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

792 ms

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css

48 ms

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458 ms

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461 ms

gdpr-main.css

gdpr-main.css

550 ms

page.js

page.js

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core.min.js

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mouse.min.js

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datepicker.min.js

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725 ms

draggable.min.js

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checkboxradio.min.js

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button.min.js

button.min.js

833 ms

dialog.min.js

dialog.min.js

833 ms

events-manager.js

events-manager.js

877 ms

selectmenu.min.js

selectmenu.min.js

881 ms

tooltip.min.js

tooltip.min.js

885 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

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js

66 ms

slick.css

slick.css

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slick.min.js

slick.min.js

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main.js

main.js

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main.js

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667 ms

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592 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

594 ms

prev.png

prev.png

594 ms

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589 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

589 ms

magnifying.svg

magnifying.svg

592 ms

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661 ms

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662 ms

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663 ms

social--instagram.svg

social--instagram.svg

664 ms

ofsted_good_gp_colour.jpg

ofsted_good_gp_colour.jpg

724 ms

leek.jpg

leek.jpg

967 ms

checkbox.svg

checkbox.svg

721 ms

checkbox-checked.svg

checkbox-checked.svg

724 ms

Accountancy-finalists-612x325.jpeg

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966 ms

BLC-Buxton-OE-pic-612x325.jpg

BLC-Buxton-OE-pic-612x325.jpg

967 ms

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968 ms

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1013 ms

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968 ms

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968 ms

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968 ms

studentlife.jpg

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969 ms

Student-Life.png

Student-Life.png

1121 ms

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1011 ms

twitter.svg

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1010 ms

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1011 ms

placeholder.png

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1013 ms

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1069 ms

leek-school-of-art.png

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1119 ms

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1068 ms

apprenticeships.jpg

apprenticeships.jpg

1119 ms

investorsindiversity.jpg

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1120 ms

traineeship.jpg

traineeship.jpg

1209 ms

advancedlearnerloan.jpg

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1209 ms

matrix-logo.png

matrix-logo.png

1062 ms

TES-logo.png

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1062 ms

default

default

332 ms

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625 ms

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logo-small.svg

logo-small.svg

768 ms

universityDerby.svg

universityDerby.svg

768 ms

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886 ms

gdpr-logo.png

gdpr-logo.png

708 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

16 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

36 ms

base.js

base.js

66 ms

inspectlet.js

inspectlet.js

145 ms

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embed.js

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54 ms

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Create

Create

143 ms

552424081

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242 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

14 ms

twk-arr-find-polyfill.js

twk-arr-find-polyfill.js

67 ms

twk-object-values-polyfill.js

twk-object-values-polyfill.js

63 ms

twk-event-polyfill.js

twk-event-polyfill.js

70 ms

twk-entries-polyfill.js

twk-entries-polyfill.js

86 ms

twk-iterator-polyfill.js

twk-iterator-polyfill.js

73 ms

twk-main.js

twk-main.js

32 ms

twk-vendor.js

twk-vendor.js

51 ms

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twk-chunk-vendors.js

87 ms

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twk-chunk-common.js

78 ms

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twk-runtime.js

84 ms

twk-app.js

twk-app.js

85 ms

Accessibility Review

blc.ac.uk accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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.

Best Practices

blc.ac.uk 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blc.ac.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Blc.ac.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 Blc.ac.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

blc.ac.uk

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