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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

redbridge.gov.uk

Redbridge

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

364 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

About Website

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Official website of Redbridge Council providing details of all services, local information and community tools for residents, businesses and visitors

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Key Findings

We analyzed Redbridge.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 364 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

redbridge.gov.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.431

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

redbridge.gov.uk

364 ms

www.redbridge.gov.uk

886 ms

styles.css

330 ms

quick-exit.css

246 ms

quick-exit.js

247 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (102 requests) were addressed to the original Redbridge.gov.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Vjs.zencdn.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Cmp.inmobi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Redbridge.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (25%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Redbridge.gov.uk main page is 4.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 40.8 kB

  • Original 53.3 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 9.7 kB, which is 18% 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 40.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 140.5 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Redbridge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 717.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 446.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 717.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 137.7 kB

  • Original 171.3 kB
  • After minification 165.1 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Redbridge.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 137.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (19%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

85

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Redbridge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

redbridge.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

redbridge.gov.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

redbridge.gov.uk SEO score

98

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 Redbridge.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 Redbridge.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 Redbridge. 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: