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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

nrc.ac.uk

Northern Regional College

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

4.7 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

326 ms

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About Website

Visit nrc.ac.uk now to see the best up-to-date Nrc content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nrc.ac.uk

Northern Regional College providing high quality education and training for learners. Teaching staff and support staff, study experience, staff and student information.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nrc.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 4.7 sec and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nrc.ac.uk performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.412

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nrc.ac.uk

4675 ms

all.css

409 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

323 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

326 ms

628ad3be-6bfb-4682-8562-d985da1320af.js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Nrc.ac.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Nrc.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 284.6 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

827.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nrc.ac.uk main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 810.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 3.3 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 22.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 64.0 kB

  • Original 810.6 kB
  • After minification 746.6 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. Nrc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 118.1 kB

  • Original 178.6 kB
  • After minification 148.3 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 118.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 79.5 kB

  • Original 93.1 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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. Nrc.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (52%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nrc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nrc.ac.uk

nrc.ac.uk

4675 ms

all.css

all.css

409 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

323 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

326 ms

628ad3be-6bfb-4682-8562-d985da1320af.js

628ad3be-6bfb-4682-8562-d985da1320af.js

63 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

39 ms

modernizr.svg.js

modernizr.svg.js

324 ms

html5shiv-printshiv.js

html5shiv-printshiv.js

326 ms

jquery.placeholder.js

jquery.placeholder.js

324 ms

js

js

75 ms

infobox.js

infobox.js

398 ms

fastclick.js

fastclick.js

445 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

399 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

400 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

400 ms

jquery.expander.min.js

jquery.expander.min.js

486 ms

common.js

common.js

486 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

43 ms

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Northern_ApplyOnline_Webpod_485x323-485x323.jpg

323 ms

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495 ms

Notices_Pod-485x323.jpg

Notices_Pod-485x323.jpg

330 ms

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Higher_Education_Guide_1617-485x323.jpg

585 ms

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ask_a_question-380x254.jpg

1220 ms

News_Pod-485x323.jpg

News_Pod-485x323.jpg

1459 ms

visit_campus-380x254.jpg

visit_campus-380x254.jpg

484 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

575 ms

logo.png

logo.png

89 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

239 ms

icon-search-transparent.png

icon-search-transparent.png

89 ms

icon-search-grey.png

icon-search-grey.png

141 ms

logo-atbar.jpg

logo-atbar.jpg

142 ms

logo-disabledgo.jpg

logo-disabledgo.jpg

167 ms

logo-matrix.jpg

logo-matrix.jpg

166 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

216 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

86 ms

icon-menu.svg

icon-menu.svg

205 ms

icon-search-open-close.png

icon-search-open-close.png

233 ms

icon-search.png

icon-search.png

234 ms

icon-arrow.jpg

icon-arrow.jpg

369 ms

icons-social-footer.png

icons-social-footer.png

286 ms

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collect

24 ms

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97 ms

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146 ms

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152 ms

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collect

83 ms

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18-plus-6.jpg

532 ms

print.css

print.css

85 ms

Accessibility Review

nrc.ac.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

nrc.ac.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nrc.ac.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 Nrc.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 Nrc.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

nrc.ac.uk

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