Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

distance-learning-centre.co.uk

Distance Learning Courses UK & Online Courses for Home Learning

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

436 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

336 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 436 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

distance-learning-centre.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,720 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

distance-learning-centre.co.uk

436 ms

www.distance-learning-centre.co.uk

1127 ms

ga.js

23 ms

4b3ed9f3-5c1d-4664-a3f9-2af763400da5.css

150 ms

style.css

267 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Distance-learning-centre.co.uk, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Distance-learning-centre.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 574.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Distance-learning-centre.co.uk main page is 3.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 57.4 kB

  • Original 67.5 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 18.0 kB, which is 27% 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 57.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 328.5 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Obviously, Distance Learning Centre needs image optimization as it can save up to 328.5 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 133.0 kB

  • Original 222.1 kB
  • After minification 196.3 kB
  • After compression 89.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 133.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 55.9 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 67.4 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 55.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (12%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 60 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

distance-learning-centre.co.uk accessibility score

70

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

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

82

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 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

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: