Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

mcerts.net

Monitoring emissions to air, land and water (MCERTS) - GOV.UK

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

406 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

539 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing MCERTS content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mcerts.net

If your business produces potentially harmful emissions and you’re an environmental permit holder you must use the Monitoring Certification Scheme (MCERTS).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcerts.net page load time and found that the first response time was 406 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mcerts.net performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.746

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcerts.net

406 ms

monitoring-emissions-to-air-land-and-water-mcerts

823 ms

lux-measurer-db6c8505a6690974922b8578eb1f2208d3073807f98d9a048efe9991f8dfc92d.js

5 ms

rum-loader-a65b10e18ceeba3bd8a2eac507c7f2c513cdc82f35097df903fdea87f1dc2e33.js

7 ms

application-c269b93c23827ed9c9661cc625aeaaca1f9a17f92e3b13e405066ce98ccbc439.css

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mcerts.net, 96% (24 requests) were made to Www.gov.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (823 ms) relates to the external source Www.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 308.4 kB (78%)

Content Size

397.2 kB

After Optimization

88.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Mcerts.net main page is 397.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 223.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

  • Original 139.3 kB
  • After minification 124.0 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 15.3 kB, which is 11% 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 120.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 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. MCERTS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 186.8 kB

  • Original 223.9 kB
  • After minification 223.4 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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. Mcerts.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 186.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (86%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MCERTS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mcerts.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

mcerts.net 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

SEO Factors

mcerts.net SEO score

99

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 Mcerts.net 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 Mcerts.net 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 MCERTS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: