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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% 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

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

weareoca.com

Blog - The Open College of the Arts | Distance Learning Degrees and Courses

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

522 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weareoca.com page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weareoca.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value950 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weareoca.com

161 ms

1120 ms

css

47 ms

oca-preloader-3.gif

41 ms

index.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Weareoca.com, 88% (99 requests) were made to Oca.ac.uk and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Oca.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weareoca.com main page is 2.2 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 169.7 kB

  • Original 203.8 kB
  • After minification 195.8 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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 169.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Weareoca images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 196.9 kB
  • After minification 195.6 kB
  • After compression 188.5 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 3.0 kB

  • Original 173.6 kB
  • After minification 173.6 kB
  • After compression 170.6 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. Weareoca.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (69%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weareoca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

weareoca.com

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161 ms

1120 ms

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47 ms

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41 ms

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54 ms

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Accessibility Review

weareoca.com accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

weareoca.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

weareoca.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Weareoca.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 Weareoca.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

weareoca.com

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