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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 70% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

arden.ac.uk

Blended and Online Distance Learning Courses | Arden University

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

696 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Arden content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about arden.ac.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arden.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 696 ms and then it took 7.8 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

arden.ac.uk performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value36,150 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arden.ac.uk

696 ms

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9 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Arden.ac.uk, 46% (57 requests) were made to D2n98vq36tw7n9.cloudfront.net and 6% (8 requests) were made to Iapro.my.salesforce.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Tag4arm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 366.6 kB (51%)

Content Size

718.1 kB

After Optimization

351.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arden.ac.uk main page is 718.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 85% 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. HTML takes 404.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 338.9 kB

  • Original 404.4 kB
  • After minification 346.5 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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 57.9 kB, which is 14% 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 338.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 135.0 kB
  • After minification 109.3 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, Arden needs image optimization as it can save up to 25.8 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 122.8 kB
  • After minification 122.8 kB
  • After compression 120.9 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 52 B

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 55.8 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Arden.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (55%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arden. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

arden.ac.uk accessibility score

88

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

arden.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

arden.ac.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 Arden.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 Arden.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

arden.ac.uk

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