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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

distance-learning-centre.co.uk

Distance Learning Courses UK & Online Courses for Home Learning

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

522 ms

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About Website

Welcome to distance-learning-centre.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Distance Learning Centre best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about distance-learning-centre.co.uk

As one of the leading UK suppliers of online courses, the Distance Learning Centre offers courses for both students and professionals. Find out more here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Distance-learning-centre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

distance-learning-centre.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.151

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

distance-learning-centre.co.uk

178 ms

distance-learning-centre.co.uk

341 ms

www.distance-learning-centre.co.uk

636 ms

main.css

428 ms

js

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Distance-learning-centre.co.uk, 14% (3 requests) were made to Djgeqya1wekbj.cloudfront.net and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (800 ms) belongs to the original domain Distance-learning-centre.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 749.3 kB (74%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

269.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Distance-learning-centre.co.uk main page is 1.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 571.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 66.9 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 90.1 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 66.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 11.0 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. Distance Learning Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 397.9 kB

  • Original 571.7 kB
  • After minification 571.6 kB
  • After compression 173.8 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 397.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 284.5 kB

  • Original 344.8 kB
  • After minification 343.2 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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. Distance-learning-centre.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 284.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (27%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Distance Learning Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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distance-learning-centre.co.uk

178 ms

distance-learning-centre.co.uk

distance-learning-centre.co.uk

341 ms

www.distance-learning-centre.co.uk

www.distance-learning-centre.co.uk

636 ms

main.css

main.css

428 ms

js

js

74 ms

jquery.351.min.js

jquery.351.min.js

478 ms

bundle.min.js

bundle.min.js

800 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

552 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

192 ms

logo_find_courses_min.png.webp

logo_find_courses_min.png.webp

230 ms

trustpilot_stars_4_5.png.webp

trustpilot_stars_4_5.png.webp

235 ms

Student4-930x620.jpg.webp

Student4-930x620.jpg.webp

178 ms

logo.png

logo.png

168 ms

star-colour.svg

star-colour.svg

168 ms

star-grey.svg

star-grey.svg

252 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

184 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

227 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

187 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

267 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

20 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

81 ms

Accessibility Review

distance-learning-centre.co.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

distance-learning-centre.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

SEO Factors

distance-learning-centre.co.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Distance-learning-centre.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 Distance-learning-centre.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

distance-learning-centre.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Distance Learning Centre. 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: