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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

guidelines.gov.in

Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) | India

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

137 ms

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About Website

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This Website contains recommended guidelines for development and management of Government Websites and Portals in India

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guidelines.gov.in page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 7.3 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

guidelines.gov.in performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guidelines.gov.in

1121 ms

theme-metallic.css

545 ms

basic.css

826 ms

common.js

552 ms

md5.js

560 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Guidelines.gov.in, 29% (22 requests) were made to Goisearch.gov.in and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Guidelines.gov.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 321.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

879.2 kB

After Optimization

557.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guidelines.gov.in main page is 879.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 459.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 4.4 kB, which is 20% 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 16.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 459.7 kB
  • After minification 452.2 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. Guidelines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 233.0 kB

  • Original 320.6 kB
  • After minification 255.3 kB
  • After compression 87.6 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 233.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 64.7 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 52.6 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. Guidelines.gov.in needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (77%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guidelines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guidelines.gov.in

guidelines.gov.in

1121 ms

theme-metallic.css

theme-metallic.css

545 ms

basic.css

basic.css

826 ms

common.js

common.js

552 ms

md5.js

md5.js

560 ms

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564 ms

base64.js

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811 ms

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1078 ms

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1107 ms

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1104 ms

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1927 ms

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1605 ms

recipes.js

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1370 ms

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1624 ms

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anythingslider.css

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1661 ms

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2253 ms

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2426 ms

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881 ms

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887 ms

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1479 ms

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895 ms

auto.js

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894 ms

custom_result.js

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1536 ms

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jquery.ui.all.css

1469 ms

custom_result.css

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1465 ms

header_home_bg.gif

header_home_bg.gif

266 ms

theme_blue.gif

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547 ms

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548 ms

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551 ms

font_decrease.gif

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561 ms

font_normal.gif

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567 ms

font_increase.gif

font_increase.gif

824 ms

gigw_handbook.jpg

gigw_handbook.jpg

2198 ms

skoch_award.jpg

skoch_award.jpg

2203 ms

web_design.jpg

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1927 ms

mobile.jpg

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1880 ms

transparent.gif

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1114 ms

banner_gigw.gif

banner_gigw.gif

1368 ms

banner1.gif

banner1.gif

1943 ms

home.nic.in_banner.png

home.nic.in_banner.png

1927 ms

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296 ms

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876 ms

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1305 ms

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1326 ms

header.gif

header.gif

1054 ms

main_bg.gif

main_bg.gif

830 ms

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832 ms

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whatnew_icon.gif

847 ms

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1096 ms

helpphoneblue.png

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1102 ms

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1371 ms

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1374 ms

button_login.gif

button_login.gif

1406 ms

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bullet_orange.gif

1601 ms

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1655 ms

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1658 ms

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1916 ms

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section_top_banner.gif

1923 ms

faq_icon.gif

faq_icon.gif

1950 ms

Tipsntricks_icon.gif

Tipsntricks_icon.gif

2147 ms

compliant_matrix.gif

compliant_matrix.gif

2198 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

39 ms

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572 ms

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2160 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

Accessibility Review

guidelines.gov.in accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

guidelines.gov.in best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

guidelines.gov.in SEO score

77

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

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 Guidelines.gov.in 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 Guidelines.gov.in 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

guidelines.gov.in

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