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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

wels.open.ac.uk

Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wels.open.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wels.open.ac.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,070 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wels.open.ac.uk

149 ms

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357 ms

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138 ms

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206 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Wels.open.ac.uk, 27% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (590 ms) relates to the external source Sgtm.open.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 348.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wels.open.ac.uk main page is 1.9 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 9.8 kB, which is 11% 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 70.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 131.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Wels Open images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 146.6 kB

  • Original 264.3 kB
  • After minification 264.3 kB
  • After compression 117.6 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 146.6 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 414 B

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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. Wels.open.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (61%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wels Open. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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149 ms

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357 ms

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Accessibility Review

wels.open.ac.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

wels.open.ac.uk best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

wels.open.ac.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Wels.open.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 Wels.open.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

wels.open.ac.uk

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