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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

lewisham.ac.uk

Lewisham College - Home

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

339 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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

Lewisham College is a top three London further education college offering an exciting range of work-focused courses and great facilities. Learn more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lewisham.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 339 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lewisham.ac.uk performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.774

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lewisham.ac.uk

339 ms

www.lewisham.ac.uk

1063 ms

gtm.js

58 ms

js

102 ms

content.min.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Lewisham.ac.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Lewisham.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 446.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lewisham.ac.uk main page is 2.8 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 55.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 341.5 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, Lewisham needs image optimization as it can save up to 341.5 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 42.7 kB

  • Original 281.5 kB
  • After minification 281.5 kB
  • After compression 238.8 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 42.7 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 84.6 kB
  • After minification 84.6 kB
  • After compression 78.1 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. Lewisham.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (44%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lewisham. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lewisham.ac.uk

lewisham.ac.uk

339 ms

www.lewisham.ac.uk

www.lewisham.ac.uk

1063 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

58 ms

js

js

102 ms

content.min.css

content.min.css

95 ms

all.css

all.css

45 ms

template.css

template.css

437 ms

style.css

style.css

381 ms

chosen.css

chosen.css

381 ms

finder.css

finder.css

378 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

381 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

171 ms

site.css

site.css

390 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

515 ms

caption.js

caption.js

395 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

533 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

395 ms

chosen.jquery.min.js

chosen.jquery.min.js

468 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

467 ms

jquery.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.autocomplete.min.js

469 ms

uikit.min.js

uikit.min.js

776 ms

uikit-icons.min.js

uikit-icons.min.js

634 ms

cookiesef.js

cookiesef.js

553 ms

element.js

element.js

74 ms

app.js

app.js

552 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

679 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

617 ms

init.js

init.js

634 ms

maps.js

maps.js

636 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

42 ms

js

js

41 ms

js

js

51 ms

collect

collect

30 ms

collect

collect

74 ms

collect

collect

74 ms

js

js

81 ms

collect

collect

152 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

200 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

501 ms

logo-cropped-white.jpg

logo-cropped-white.jpg

77 ms

logo-cropped-white.png

logo-cropped-white.png

78 ms

BANNERS_PLAIN_JAN_242.jpg

BANNERS_PLAIN_JAN_242.jpg

78 ms

new-sports-courses.jpg

new-sports-courses.jpg

80 ms

Free_courses_banner_-_LEW.jpg

Free_courses_banner_-_LEW.jpg

93 ms

T-LEVEL_COLLEGE_BANNERS_BLANK_RANGED_RIGHT_1900_x_675.jpg

T-LEVEL_COLLEGE_BANNERS_BLANK_RANGED_RIGHT_1900_x_675.jpg

92 ms

LEWISHAM_DEPTFORD_WEB_BANNERS.jpg

LEWISHAM_DEPTFORD_WEB_BANNERS.jpg

78 ms

LEWISHAM_THEATRE_CON_D_DIGITAL_BANNER.jpg

LEWISHAM_THEATRE_CON_D_DIGITAL_BANNER.jpg

78 ms

greypatterndarker.svg

greypatterndarker.svg

79 ms

quote-left.png

quote-left.png

91 ms

bluetriangles.svg

bluetriangles.svg

93 ms

bluewaves.jpg

bluewaves.jpg

167 ms

Business_Breakfast_Lewisham_April_2024.png

Business_Breakfast_Lewisham_April_2024.png

175 ms

more-then-just.jpg

more-then-just.jpg

167 ms

EN.png

EN.png

166 ms

FR.png

FR.png

165 ms

DE.png

DE.png

167 ms

PT.png

PT.png

168 ms

RU.png

RU.png

168 ms

ES.png

ES.png

167 ms

Ofsted_Logo_.jpg

Ofsted_Logo_.jpg

168 ms

EU.jpg

EU.jpg

168 ms

PADP.jpg

PADP.jpg

169 ms

healthyFE.jpg

healthyFE.jpg

169 ms

matrix.jpg

matrix.jpg

170 ms

ESFA.jpg

ESFA.jpg

170 ms

apprenticeships.jpg

apprenticeships.jpg

169 ms

OCN_PrimaryLogo_RGB.jpg

OCN_PrimaryLogo_RGB.jpg

170 ms

Access_logo_colour.jpg

Access_logo_colour.jpg

171 ms

stonewall_college_champion_black.png

stonewall_college_champion_black.png

172 ms

snapcode.png

snapcode.png

171 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

72 ms

Gotham-Book.otf

Gotham-Book.otf

428 ms

Gotham-Medium.otf

Gotham-Medium.otf

425 ms

Gotham-Bold.otf

Gotham-Bold.otf

425 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

69 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

70 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

153 ms

default

default

325 ms

Accessibility Review

lewisham.ac.uk accessibility score

89

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

lewisham.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

lewisham.ac.uk SEO score

85

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

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 Lewisham.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 Lewisham.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

lewisham.ac.uk

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