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lhc.gov.uk

LHC Procurement Group | Public Sector Procurement Solutions

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

334 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lhc.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 334 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lhc.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lhc.gov.uk

334 ms

www.lhc.gov.uk

631 ms

www.lhcprocure.org.uk

374 ms

gtm.js

66 ms

all.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Lhc.gov.uk, 80% (33 requests) were made to Lhcprocure.org.uk and 7% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Lhcprocure.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Lhc.gov.uk main page is 3.6 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 11.7 kB, which is 24% 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 41.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 59.0 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. LHC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 100.2 kB

  • Original 299.9 kB
  • After minification 299.9 kB
  • After compression 199.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 100.2 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 77.3 kB
  • After minification 77.3 kB
  • After compression 57.1 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. Lhc.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.2 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (14%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LHC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lhc.gov.uk SEO score

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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 Lhc.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 Lhc.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 LHC. 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: