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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

ocr.org.uk

OCR - awarding body for A Levels, GCSEs, Cambridge Nationals, Cambridge Technicals and other qualifications

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

603 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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About Website

Visit ocr.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date OCR content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ocr.org.uk

OCR is a leading UK awarding body, providing qualifications for learners of all ages at school, college, in work or through part-time learning programmes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ocr.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 603 ms and then it took 5.6 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

ocr.org.uk performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,700 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.722

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ocr.org.uk

603 ms

analytics.js

40 ms

gtm.js

62 ms

css

54 ms

local-publication.css

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Ocr.org.uk, 5% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Ocr.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 274.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ocr.org.uk main page is 2.9 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. 75% 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 56.8 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 50.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 131.7 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. OCR images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 573.8 kB
  • After minification 572.3 kB
  • After compression 527.2 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

-29%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 160.4 kB
  • After minification 147.7 kB
  • After compression 114.3 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. Ocr.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.1 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (76%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of OCR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ocr.org.uk

ocr.org.uk

603 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

40 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

62 ms

css

css

54 ms

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130 ms

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653 ms

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685 ms

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54 ms

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679 ms

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591 ms

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592 ms

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739 ms

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106 ms

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769 ms

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809 ms

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807 ms

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807 ms

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911 ms

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dropdown.js

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936 ms

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935 ms

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1305 ms

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1010 ms

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1012 ms

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1017 ms

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ucles.jquery.ajax-loading.js

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1428 ms

ucles.jquery.video-z-index-fix.js

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1427 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

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jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

1426 ms

jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

1172 ms

ocr-redesign-mobile-view-adjustment.js

ocr-redesign-mobile-view-adjustment.js

1279 ms

init.js

init.js

1384 ms

jquery.waypoints.min.js

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1404 ms

sticky.min.js

sticky.min.js

1487 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

collect

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130 ms

js

js

43 ms

destination

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112 ms

hotjar-568469.js

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265 ms

insight.min.js

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111 ms

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110 ms

YouTube.js

YouTube.js

1379 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

235 ms

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insight_tag_errors.gif

165 ms

modules.842bcec28f9fd12bb79e.js

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29 ms

cookiesconsent.newqualificationpage.js

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1044 ms

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1097 ms

materialize_modified.min.js

materialize_modified.min.js

1302 ms

ucles.jquery.breadcrumb.js

ucles.jquery.breadcrumb.js

954 ms

site24x7rum-min.js

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63 ms

cse.js

cse.js

72 ms

ocr_logo_retina.png

ocr_logo_retina.png

875 ms

arrow-black-down-padded.png

arrow-black-down-padded.png

893 ms

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892 ms

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904 ms

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953 ms

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90 ms

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92 ms

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3163 ms

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138 ms

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139 ms

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135 ms

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139 ms

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43 ms

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68 ms

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70 ms

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2598 ms

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1028 ms

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1235 ms

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1285 ms

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1286 ms

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1320 ms

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102 ms

Accessibility Review

ocr.org.uk accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

ocr.org.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ocr.org.uk SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Ocr.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 Ocr.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

ocr.org.uk

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