Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

ukelect.co.uk

UK-Elect Election Forecasting and Analysis Software

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

389 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

ukelect.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing UK Elect content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ukelect.co.uk

UK-Elect is the leading UK election forecasting and analysis software, supporting General Elections, Scottish Parliament, Welsh, London, UK European and Local Elections.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ukelect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 389 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ukelect.co.uk performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukelect.co.uk

389 ms

main.css

241 ms

brand

33 ms

query_renderer.js

15 ms

query_renderer.js

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Ukelect.co.uk, 19% (22 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 9% (10 requests) were made to Feedjit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (749 ms) belongs to the original domain Ukelect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.3 kB (21%)

Content Size

555.3 kB

After Optimization

441.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Ukelect.co.uk main page is 555.3 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. 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 294.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 20.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 294.4 kB
  • After minification 290.0 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. UK Elect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 77.3 kB

  • Original 218.4 kB
  • After minification 218.1 kB
  • After compression 141.1 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 77.3 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 13.5 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Ukelect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (64%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UK Elect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ukelect.co.uk accessibility score

59

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

ukelect.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ukelect.co.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ukelect.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ukelect.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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