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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

gmtu.gov.uk

Highways Forecasting and Analytical Services - home page

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

75 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gmtu.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gmtu.gov.uk performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gmtu.gov.uk

179 ms

gmtu.gov.uk

490 ms

gmtu_layout.css

132 ms

style.css

286 ms

modal.css

379 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Gmtu.gov.uk, 9% (1 request) were made to Cdn.tfgm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (526 ms) belongs to the original domain Gmtu.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.4 kB (57%)

Content Size

58.8 kB

After Optimization

25.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gmtu.gov.uk main page is 58.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 24.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 3.0 kB, which is 17% 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 13.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 16.8 kB
  • After minification 16.8 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. Gmtu images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 18.0 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Gmtu.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gmtu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gmtu.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

gmtu.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gmtu.gov.uk SEO score

93

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 Gmtu.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 Gmtu.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 Gmtu. 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: