Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

limavady.gov.uk

Limavady Borough Council : Limavady town, Dungiven and Ballykelly, Northern Ireland

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

463 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Limavady.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 463 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

limavady.gov.uk performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

limavady.gov.uk

463 ms

main.css

347 ms

homepage.css

171 ms

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

421 ms

generic.css

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Limavady.gov.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (506 ms) belongs to the original domain Limavady.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.8 kB (45%)

Content Size

149.1 kB

After Optimization

81.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Limavady.gov.uk main page is 149.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 77.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 6.9 kB, which is 48% 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 11.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 599 B

  • Original 43.9 kB
  • After minification 43.3 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. Limavady images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 77.3 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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 44.7 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Limavady.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (15%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Limavady. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

limavady.gov.uk accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

limavady.gov.uk best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

limavady.gov.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Limavady.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 Limavady.gov.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Limavady. 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: