Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

425 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Talklondon.london.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 425 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

talklondon.london.gov.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

talklondon.london.gov.uk

425 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

160 ms

css_BzlfyA9pBtT_xXVTMOiI9A0GR98nWeNgzAC1GulJbQ0.css

165 ms

css_v_3QEkyc-FKxkqT02T9euXUby0bOY0I7cQ5piXXciqA.css

167 ms

css_DsCPYOENcfjUaqsqly8uPE2J5Y_cI7Gn_qWfGFxvDtw.css

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Talklondon.london.gov.uk, 15% (12 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Talklondon.london.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.1 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Talklondon.london.gov.uk main page is 2.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 93.8 kB

  • Original 130.8 kB
  • After minification 129.3 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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 93.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Talk London images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 348.8 kB

  • Original 537.3 kB
  • After minification 514.7 kB
  • After compression 188.5 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 348.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 83.8 kB

  • Original 104.6 kB
  • After minification 102.9 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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. Talklondon.london.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (55%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Talk London. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

talklondon.london.gov.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

talklondon.london.gov.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

talklondon.london.gov.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Talklondon.london.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 Talklondon.london.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 data is detected on the main page of Talk London. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: