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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

unionlearn.org.uk

TUC unionlearn | The home of union learning & skills

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

513 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

547 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Union Learn content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about unionlearn.org.uk

Unionlearn is the learning and skills organisation of the TUC, working to help unions deliver learning opportunities for their members.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unionlearn.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 513 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

unionlearn.org.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unionlearn.org.uk

513 ms

js

59 ms

css_4-eWrhlbhBThh6zFW31XBrJ5eNzaf3o9vB0ZDIdrFPg.css

337 ms

css2

32 ms

css_eANR5oUqXcFP_b-VqM07Qmgst_dBGf6Fz9y8adpWZ0w.css

616 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Unionlearn.org.uk, 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Unionlearn.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 315.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Unionlearn.org.uk main page is 1.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 909.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 58.4 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 56.8 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 14.8 kB, which is 21% 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 58.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 256.6 kB

  • Original 909.6 kB
  • After minification 653.0 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, Union Learn needs image optimization as it can save up to 256.6 kB or 28% 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 533 B

  • Original 261.4 kB
  • After minification 261.4 kB
  • After compression 260.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 310 B

  • Original 127.5 kB
  • After minification 127.5 kB
  • After compression 127.2 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. Unionlearn.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (32%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Union Learn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

unionlearn.org.uk

unionlearn.org.uk

513 ms

js

js

59 ms

css_4-eWrhlbhBThh6zFW31XBrJ5eNzaf3o9vB0ZDIdrFPg.css

css_4-eWrhlbhBThh6zFW31XBrJ5eNzaf3o9vB0ZDIdrFPg.css

337 ms

css2

css2

32 ms

css_eANR5oUqXcFP_b-VqM07Qmgst_dBGf6Fz9y8adpWZ0w.css

css_eANR5oUqXcFP_b-VqM07Qmgst_dBGf6Fz9y8adpWZ0w.css

616 ms

css2

css2

51 ms

css2

css2

82 ms

css_uf7zwT2QOqcKYsRDk8gW1EcbAokAMdp3D8bZeIhRPWs.css

css_uf7zwT2QOqcKYsRDk8gW1EcbAokAMdp3D8bZeIhRPWs.css

361 ms

js_s1046fU6ISuV4p8S8-qpJkg-9LBG79osdcebj2f4Yos.js

js_s1046fU6ISuV4p8S8-qpJkg-9LBG79osdcebj2f4Yos.js

38 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

37 ms

js_7Ol-tTGb25NrHEMdPewZJiX36R6jGHp7uUmLLTExZQo.js

js_7Ol-tTGb25NrHEMdPewZJiX36R6jGHp7uUmLLTExZQo.js

38 ms

eu_cookie_compliance.min.js

eu_cookie_compliance.min.js

54 ms

js_8zUYNuGMFTZubu7m1hpBV16d4i5beM99df8HfBHro1k.js

js_8zUYNuGMFTZubu7m1hpBV16d4i5beM99df8HfBHro1k.js

452 ms

css2

css2

51 ms

unionlearn_logo_white.svg

unionlearn_logo_white.svg

370 ms

unionlearn-yellow-header3.svg

unionlearn-yellow-header3.svg

58 ms

careerzone-500x308.jpg

careerzone-500x308.jpg

485 ms

tuc-education-500x308.jpg

tuc-education-500x308.jpg

492 ms

skillcheck-500x308.jpg

skillcheck-500x308.jpg

476 ms

ulrs-500x308.jpg

ulrs-500x308.jpg

513 ms

value_my_skills-500x308.jpg

value_my_skills-500x308.jpg

59 ms

apprenticeship-500x308.jpg

apprenticeship-500x308.jpg

59 ms

pexels-new-sun-ha-232224115-20059871.jpg

pexels-new-sun-ha-232224115-20059871.jpg

514 ms

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pexels-ksenia-chernaya-3952078.jpg

853 ms

opinion-poll-1594962_1280.jpg

opinion-poll-1594962_1280.jpg

886 ms

union-learning-reps-image-bg-text.png

union-learning-reps-image-bg-text.png

1129 ms

footer-arrow-left.png

footer-arrow-left.png

848 ms

footer-arrow-bottom.png

footer-arrow-bottom.png

847 ms

unionlearn-logo-white.png

unionlearn-logo-white.png

529 ms

pexels-new-sun-ha-232224115-20059871.jpg

pexels-new-sun-ha-232224115-20059871.jpg

879 ms

pexels-ksenia-chernaya-3952078.jpg

pexels-ksenia-chernaya-3952078.jpg

1185 ms

post-10.jpg

post-10.jpg

1188 ms

post-9.jpg

post-9.jpg

1186 ms

post-8.jpg

post-8.jpg

891 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

1320 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

1422 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1527 ms

Flaticon.svg

Flaticon.svg

1583 ms

Flaticon.woff

Flaticon.woff

1470 ms

Accessibility Review

unionlearn.org.uk accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

unionlearn.org.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

unionlearn.org.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Unionlearn.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 Unionlearn.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

unionlearn.org.uk

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