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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

calderdale.gov.uk

Calderdale Council serves Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge, Todmorden

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

90 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Calderdale.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

calderdale.gov.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,980 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.67

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

calderdale.gov.uk

82 ms

www.calderdale.gov.uk

464 ms

js

70 ms

cookies-03-2023.js

103 ms

font-awesome.min.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Calderdale.gov.uk, 9% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 9% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Calderdale.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

100.2 kB

After Optimization

83.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Calderdale.gov.uk main page is 100.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 77.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 16.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 77.6 kB
  • After minification 77.6 kB
  • After compression 77.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (38%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Calderdale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

calderdale.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

calderdale.gov.uk best practices score

75

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

calderdale.gov.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Calderdale.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 Calderdale.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 Calderdale. 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: