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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

kaplanopenlearning.org.uk

 Kaplan Open Learning | Kaplan International Pathways

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

547 ms

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About Website

Visit kaplanopenlearning.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Kaplan Open Learning content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kaplanopenlearning.org.uk

Experts in online degrees, Kaplan Open Learning works with the University of Essex and the University of Liverpool to deliver great online learning.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kaplanopenlearning.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 3.4 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

kaplanopenlearning.org.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

140 ms

gtm.js

367 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

72 ms

style-index.css

493 ms

style.min.css

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Kaplanopenlearning.org.uk, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (944 ms) relates to the external source Kaplanpathways.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 150.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

824.0 kB

After Optimization

673.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kaplanopenlearning.org.uk main page is 824.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 307.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 109.2 kB

  • Original 132.3 kB
  • After minification 132.2 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. 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 109.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 250.5 kB
  • After minification 209.4 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. Obviously, Kaplan Open Learning needs image optimization as it can save up to 41.1 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 92 B

  • Original 133.4 kB
  • After minification 133.4 kB
  • After compression 133.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 410 B

  • Original 307.8 kB
  • After minification 307.8 kB
  • After compression 307.4 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. Kaplanopenlearning.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (80%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kaplan Open Learning. 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 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

140 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

367 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

72 ms

style-index.css

style-index.css

493 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

102 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

191 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

104 ms

main.css

main.css

157 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

271 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

owl.theme.default.min.css

489 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

515 ms

css

css

568 ms

page-template-flexible-content.css

page-template-flexible-content.css

518 ms

default.min.css

default.min.css

538 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

565 ms

front.js

front.js

565 ms

css

css

714 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

559 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

558 ms

modernizr-custom.min.js

modernizr-custom.min.js

557 ms

page-template-flexible-content.js

page-template-flexible-content.js

557 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

685 ms

civic.min.js

civic.min.js

827 ms

local.min.js

local.min.js

817 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

816 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

814 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

814 ms

cross-domain.js

cross-domain.js

698 ms

v652eace1692a40cfa3763df669d7439c1639079717194

v652eace1692a40cfa3763df669d7439c1639079717194

545 ms

kaplan-open-learning-logo.gif

kaplan-open-learning-logo.gif

544 ms

qaa-badge.png

qaa-badge.png

420 ms

web-vitals

web-vitals

355 ms

kol-header-1500x500.jpg

kol-header-1500x500.jpg

944 ms

KOL-university-of-essex-logo-270x184.jpg

KOL-university-of-essex-logo-270x184.jpg

587 ms

KOL-university-of-liverpool-logo-270x184.jpg

KOL-university-of-liverpool-logo-270x184.jpg

543 ms

kihe.ttf

kihe.ttf

100 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

100 ms

css2

css2

99 ms

web-vitals@3.0.0

web-vitals@3.0.0

56 ms

web-vitals.umd.js

web-vitals.umd.js

126 ms

Accessibility Review

kaplanopenlearning.org.uk accessibility score

80

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

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

kaplanopenlearning.org.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

kaplanopenlearning.org.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Kaplanopenlearning.org.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 Kaplanopenlearning.org.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

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