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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

fireservice.co.uk

UK Fire Service Resources – Information and guidance for both firefighters and those wishing to join the UK Fire and Rescue Service.

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

About Website

Visit fireservice.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Fire Service content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about fireservice.co.uk

UK Fire Service Resources aims to provide Fire and Rescue Service related information and an online community where members of the UK Fire and Rescue Service and members of the public can find all the...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fireservice.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 6.6 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

fireservice.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.171

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.fireservice.co.uk

3385 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

242 ms

jquery.js

407 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

163 ms

karma-cherry.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Fireservice.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Fireservice.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 290.8 kB (44%)

Content Size

664.1 kB

After Optimization

373.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fireservice.co.uk main page is 664.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 272.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 36.6 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. 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 29.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 272.5 kB
  • After minification 269.3 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. Fire Service images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 153.6 kB

  • Original 233.0 kB
  • After minification 223.2 kB
  • After compression 79.4 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 153.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 104.7 kB

  • Original 122.0 kB
  • After minification 103.0 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. Fireservice.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (61%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fire Service. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fireservice.co.uk 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

fireservice.co.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

fireservice.co.uk SEO score

83

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 Fireservice.co.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 Fireservice.co.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 Fire Service. 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: