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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

wsc.ac.uk

West Suffolk College - Diplomas, Degrees, Apprenticeships & T Levels

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

848 ms

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About Website

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West Suffolk College is one of the country’s leading further education and apprenticeship providers. Our apprenticeship results have consistently remained above the national average. We offer many deg...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wsc.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 3.6 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

wsc.ac.uk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.457

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wsc.ac.uk

329 ms

www.wsc.ac.uk

955 ms

js

62 ms

scevent.min.js

52 ms

js

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Wsc.ac.uk, 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (955 ms) belongs to the original domain Wsc.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 572.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wsc.ac.uk main page is 5.4 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. 80% 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 76.5 kB
  • After minification 71.8 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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. 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 61.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 476.7 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Wsc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 400.7 kB
  • After minification 400.7 kB
  • After compression 370.7 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 124.2 kB
  • After minification 124.2 kB
  • After compression 119.1 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. Wsc.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (48%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wsc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wsc.ac.uk

wsc.ac.uk

329 ms

www.wsc.ac.uk

www.wsc.ac.uk

955 ms

js

js

62 ms

scevent.min.js

scevent.min.js

52 ms

js

js

111 ms

content.min.css

content.min.css

87 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

141 ms

css

css

48 ms

template.css

template.css

514 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

347 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

345 ms

site.css

site.css

523 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

431 ms

caption.js

caption.js

169 ms

jquery.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.autocomplete.min.js

254 ms

uikit.min.js

uikit.min.js

426 ms

uikit-icons.min.js

uikit-icons.min.js

542 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

647 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

511 ms

app.min.js

app.min.js

540 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

648 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

648 ms

init.js

init.js

647 ms

maps.js

maps.js

647 ms

ts.js

ts.js

125 ms

ba.js

ba.js

29 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

52 ms

prospectus-plus-small.jpg

prospectus-plus-small.jpg

191 ms

logo.png

logo.png

259 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

259 ms

WSC_day_1-0100.jpg

WSC_day_1-0100.jpg

722 ms

USWSC_homepageBackLighter2_-_Copy.jpg

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349 ms

one-pound-photo-1.jpg

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350 ms

appwk24.png

appwk24.png

720 ms

whatnext.png

whatnext.png

461 ms

youtube-playlist-icon.png

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413 ms

digital-banner-for-colleges-1192x220-1.jpg

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436 ms

uea-200px.png

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411 ms

sat-200px.png

sat-200px.png

477 ms

world-skills-200px.png

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719 ms

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482 ms

ciob-200px.png

ciob-200px.png

720 ms

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721 ms

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722 ms

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722 ms

AoC_Beacon2020_Winner.png

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722 ms

University_of_Suffolk_Logo.png

University_of_Suffolk_Logo.png

723 ms

the-gateway-blue-sky.jpg

the-gateway-blue-sky.jpg

760 ms

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759 ms

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757 ms

Harry_Sandy_Connor_Gutsell_and_Luke_Nobbs_-_part_of_a_team_who_have_gained_apprenticeships_with_West_Suffolk_College.jpg

Harry_Sandy_Connor_Gutsell_and_Luke_Nobbs_-_part_of_a_team_who_have_gained_apprenticeships_with_West_Suffolk_College.jpg

757 ms

videoseries

videoseries

303 ms

hero-bg.jpg

hero-bg.jpg

747 ms

newsevents-background.jpg

newsevents-background.jpg

712 ms

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210 ms

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298 ms

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343 ms

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361 ms

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847 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

139 ms

version.json

version.json

148 ms

www.wsc.ac.uk.js

www.wsc.ac.uk.js

529 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

131 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

175 ms

base.js

base.js

221 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

181 ms

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125 ms

embed.js

embed.js

49 ms

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173 ms

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30 ms

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34 ms

id

id

24 ms

wsc.ac.uk.js

wsc.ac.uk.js

21 ms

sri.json

sri.json

89 ms

Accessibility Review

wsc.ac.uk accessibility score

96

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

wsc.ac.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wsc.ac.uk SEO score

80

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

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

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 Wsc.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 Wsc.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

wsc.ac.uk

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