Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

rdi.co.uk

Blended and Online Distance Learning Courses | Arden University

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rdi.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 6.2 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

rdi.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,800 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rdi.co.uk

140 ms

arden.ac.uk

935 ms

j.php

56 ms

v.gif

5 ms

tag-c0b2071df4079775ed3a1f4ec630809e.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rdi.co.uk, 58% (67 requests) were made to Cdn.arden.ac.uk and 9% (10 requests) were made to Arden.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.arden.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 504.3 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Rdi.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 770.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 341.9 kB

  • Original 410.4 kB
  • After minification 348.6 kB
  • After compression 68.5 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 61.8 kB, which is 15% 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 341.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 770.9 kB
  • After minification 756.5 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. Rdi images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 148.0 kB

  • Original 562.0 kB
  • After minification 562.0 kB
  • After compression 414.0 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 148.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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. Rdi.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (46%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rdi. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rdi.co.uk accessibility score

80

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

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

rdi.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rdi.co.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 Rdi.co.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 Rdi.co.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

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