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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

nc4m.ac.uk

Bedford College Group | The Bedford College Group | Further and Higher Education

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

358 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

815 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nc4m.ac.uk homepage info - get ready to check Nc 4 M best content for Norway right away, or after learning these important things about nc4m.ac.uk

Here you can find out about our courses, get inspired by looking at all the subjects we offer and discover what makes our campuses outstanding places to study. You can also find out about our upcoming...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nc4m.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 358 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nc4m.ac.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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358 ms

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587 ms

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312 ms

bedfordcollegegroup.ac.uk

1416 ms

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321 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Nc4m.ac.uk, 56% (52 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 38% (35 requests) were made to Bedfordcollegegroup.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Bedfordcollegegroup.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (10%)

Content Size

13.3 MB

After Optimization

12.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nc4m.ac.uk main page is 13.3 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 11.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 168.0 kB

  • Original 191.4 kB
  • After minification 145.7 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 45.7 kB, which is 24% 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 168.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 11.7 MB
  • After minification 11.7 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. Nc 4 M images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 503.8 kB

  • Original 689.9 kB
  • After minification 658.4 kB
  • After compression 186.1 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 503.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 589.8 kB

  • Original 688.0 kB
  • After minification 687.0 kB
  • After compression 98.2 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. Nc4m.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 589.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (32%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

58

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nc 4 M. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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587 ms

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312 ms

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Accessibility Review

nc4m.ac.uk accessibility score

91

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.

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

nc4m.ac.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

nc4m.ac.uk SEO score

89

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

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 Nc4m.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 Nc4m.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

nc4m.ac.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Nc 4 M. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: