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nulc.ac.uk

Two Campuses, One Destination | NSCG

Page Load Speed

28.3 sec in total

First Response

621 ms

Resources Loaded

16.8 sec

Page Rendered

10.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nulc.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 621 ms and then it took 27.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nulc.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nulc.ac.uk

621 ms

www.nulc.ac.uk

2123 ms

ac8c05b272afdaf0a316ff5cbee9582f3781ff27.1491816037.css

401 ms

widgets.js

2432 ms

ec04413a075cdcda6c1c0dd2f8a871a4b070eca8.1486139833.js

3509 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Nulc.ac.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.2 sec) relates to the external source Googleadservices.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 396.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nulc.ac.uk main page is 5.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 26.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 232.4 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Nulc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 59 B

  • Original 41.4 kB
  • After minification 41.4 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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

-79%

Potential reduce by 137.3 kB

  • Original 173.0 kB
  • After minification 171.0 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. Nulc.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 137.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (25%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nulc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nulc.ac.uk

nulc.ac.uk

621 ms

www.nulc.ac.uk

www.nulc.ac.uk

2123 ms

ac8c05b272afdaf0a316ff5cbee9582f3781ff27.1491816037.css

ac8c05b272afdaf0a316ff5cbee9582f3781ff27.1491816037.css

401 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

2432 ms

ec04413a075cdcda6c1c0dd2f8a871a4b070eca8.1486139833.js

ec04413a075cdcda6c1c0dd2f8a871a4b070eca8.1486139833.js

3509 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

8238 ms

logo.png

logo.png

8236 ms

school_leavers_callout.jpg

school_leavers_callout.jpg

8236 ms

higher_education_callout.jpg

higher_education_callout.jpg

8164 ms

adult_learners_callout.jpg

adult_learners_callout.jpg

8162 ms

nulc_for_business.jpg

nulc_for_business.jpg

8235 ms

gordon_banks_banner.jpg

gordon_banks_banner.jpg

7406 ms

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MADEHERE_DEC16-56_LR_596_400_c1.jpg

7437 ms

HB_BW-2_600_400_c1.jpg

HB_BW-2_600_400_c1.jpg

7436 ms

gradbach_banner.jpg

gradbach_banner.jpg

7438 ms

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LEGO_LETSBUILD_Community_banner_1200_400_c1.jpg

7490 ms

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eu.png

7357 ms

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qaa.png

7405 ms

nscg.png

nscg.png

7435 ms

prospectus-builder.png

prospectus-builder.png

7434 ms

newsletter-signup.png

newsletter-signup.png

7490 ms

live-chat.png

live-chat.png

7490 ms

museo_slab_500-webfont.woff

museo_slab_500-webfont.woff

6189 ms

museo_slab_300-webfont.woff

museo_slab_300-webfont.woff

6189 ms

museo_slab_900-webfont.woff

museo_slab_900-webfont.woff

6189 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

6188 ms

footer_background.png

footer_background.png

5840 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

5839 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

2949 ms

3346 ms

bx_loader.gif

bx_loader.gif

1951 ms

bx-arrows.png

bx-arrows.png

901 ms

Adult_Courses_Web_Banner_903_500_c1.jpg

Adult_Courses_Web_Banner_903_500_c1.jpg

1040 ms

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1042 ms

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1041 ms

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IMG_9282_750_500_c1.JPG

900 ms

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900 ms

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collect

198 ms

272 ms

SEO Factors

nulc.ac.uk SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nulc.ac.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Nulc.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

nulc.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nulc. 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: