Access merthyr.gov.uk. Welcome to MERTHYR.GOV.UK | Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

merthyr.gov.uk

350 ms

www.merthyr.gov.uk

835 ms

gtm.js

55 ms

bootstrap.min.css

258 ms

museo.css

346 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Merthyr.gov.uk, 12% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (835 ms) belongs to the original domain Merthyr.gov.uk.

Content Size

171.8 kB

After Optimization

108.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Merthyr.gov.uk main page is 171.8 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. Javascripts take 124.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

Original 11.1 kB
After minification 9.5 kB
After compression 3.5 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 1.6 kB, which is 14% 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 7.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

Original 9.3 kB
After minification 7.4 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. Obviously, MERTHYR needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

Original 124.1 kB
After minification 122.0 kB
After compression 76.3 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 47.8 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

Original 27.3 kB
After minification 23.3 kB
After compression 20.8 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. Merthyr.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MERTHYR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.