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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

argyll-bute.gov.uk

Welcome to Argyll & Bute Council | Argyll and Bute Council

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

550 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Argyll-bute.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

argyll-bute.gov.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,020 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.argyll-bute.gov.uk

1238 ms

localgov-subsites-paragraphs.css

90 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

178 ms

align.module.css

269 ms

autocomplete-loading.module.css

272 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Argyll-bute.gov.uk, 4% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Browsealoud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Argyll-bute.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Argyll-bute.gov.uk main page is 1.4 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. Javascripts take 952.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 58.8 kB

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 65.3 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 7.8 kB, which is 11% 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 58.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 43.0 kB

  • Original 319.2 kB
  • After minification 276.2 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. Obviously, Argyll Bute needs image optimization as it can save up to 43.0 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 952.9 kB
  • After minification 952.9 kB
  • After compression 936.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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. Argyll-bute.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (85%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Argyll Bute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 60 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.argyll-bute.gov.uk

www.argyll-bute.gov.uk

1238 ms

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localgov-subsites-paragraphs.css

90 ms

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178 ms

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273 ms

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358 ms

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Accessibility Review

argyll-bute.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

argyll-bute.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

argyll-bute.gov.uk SEO score

99

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 Argyll-bute.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 Argyll-bute.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

argyll-bute.gov.uk

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