Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thearden.co.uk

The Northern School of Dramatic Arts

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

635 ms

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About Website

Visit thearden.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Thearden content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thearden.co.uk

The Arden School of Theatre was established in association with The Royal Exchange Theatre. It was one of the first establishments in the UK to offer vocational, degree level theatrical courses. We co...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thearden.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thearden.co.uk performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thearden.ucenmanchester.ac.uk

1283 ms

theme.min.css

172 ms

fontello.css

256 ms

maxresdefault.jpg

247 ms

arden_logosmallrev-v4.png__100x49_subject_location-50%2C25_subsampling-2.webp

254 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thearden.co.uk, 11% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to I.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Thearden.ucenmanchester.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

873.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Thearden.co.uk main page is 1.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 865.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 56.6 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 58.2 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.9 kB, which is 13% 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 56.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 101.0 kB

  • Original 865.4 kB
  • After minification 764.5 kB

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. Obviously, Thearden needs image optimization as it can save up to 101.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 68.1 kB
  • After minification 68.1 kB
  • After compression 68.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 749 B

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 31.0 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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. Thearden.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thearden. 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.

Accessibility Review

thearden.co.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

thearden.co.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thearden.co.uk SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thearden.co.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 Thearden.co.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

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