Report Summary

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oca-uk.com

Open College of the Arts - Distance Learning Degrees and Courses

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oca-uk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oca-uk.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

oca-uk.com

180 ms

www.oca.ac.uk

3714 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

151 ms

css

72 ms

css

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Oca-uk.com, 86% (97 requests) were made to Oca.ac.uk and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Oca.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (30%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Oca-uk.com main page is 7.1 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 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 144.5 kB

  • Original 171.9 kB
  • After minification 164.9 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 144.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 106.9 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Oca Uk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 308.9 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 1.1 MB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 794.7 kB

  • Original 914.3 kB
  • After minification 798.3 kB
  • After compression 119.6 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. Oca-uk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 794.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (62%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oca Uk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

oca-uk.com SEO score

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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 Oca-uk.com 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 Oca-uk.com 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 data is detected on the main page of Oca Uk. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: