Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

gcn.civilservice.gov.uk

Welcome to nginx!

Page Load Speed

18.3 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

17.8 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcn.civilservice.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 18 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gcn.civilservice.gov.uk performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.513

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gcn.civilservice.gov.uk

255 ms

280 ms

style.css

229 ms

style.dev.css

225 ms

flick.css

424 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gcn.civilservice.gov.uk, 98% (63 requests) were made to Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16 sec) relates to the external source Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 554.9 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Gcn.civilservice.gov.uk main page is 1.6 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 71.3 kB
  • After minification 67.8 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 60.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 133.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 968.9 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, Gcn Civilservice needs image optimization as it can save up to 133.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 204.5 kB

  • Original 282.9 kB
  • After minification 240.1 kB
  • After compression 78.5 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 204.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 157.0 kB

  • Original 184.0 kB
  • After minification 159.2 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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. Gcn.civilservice.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 157.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (57%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gcn Civilservice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gcn.civilservice.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

gcn.civilservice.gov.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

gcn.civilservice.gov.uk SEO score

98

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 Gcn.civilservice.gov.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 Gcn.civilservice.gov.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gcn Civilservice. 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: