Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

lancashirelep.co.uk

Lancashire Enterprise Partnership - A strategic collaboration between business, universities and local councils which directs economic growth and driv...

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

360 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lancashirelep.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lancashirelep.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.713

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lancashirelep.co.uk

267 ms

lancashirelep.co.uk

1026 ms

gtm.js

46 ms

style.css

181 ms

fontawesome.css

620 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Lancashirelep.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Lancashirelep.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 748.9 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Lancashirelep.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 56.2 kB
  • After minification 53.9 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 45.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 165.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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, Lancashire Lep needs image optimization as it can save up to 165.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 236.0 kB

  • Original 326.7 kB
  • After minification 301.2 kB
  • After compression 90.8 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 236.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 302.0 kB

  • Original 362.5 kB
  • After minification 353.8 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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. Lancashirelep.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 302.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (33%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lancashire Lep. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lancashirelep.co.uk accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

lancashirelep.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

lancashirelep.co.uk SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Lancashirelep.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 Lancashirelep.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 data is detected on the main page of Lancashire Lep. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: