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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

reigate-banstead.gov.uk

Reigate and Banstead Homepage

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

326 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

313 ms

About Website

Visit reigate-banstead.gov.uk now to see the best up-to-date Reigate Banstead content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about reigate-banstead.gov.uk

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council is a local government district in east Surrey, England. Includes the towns of Reigate, Redhill, Horley and Banstead.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Reigate-banstead.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 326 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

reigate-banstead.gov.uk performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

reigate-banstead.gov.uk

326 ms

www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk

528 ms

base.css

83 ms

iframe_responsive.css

165 ms

font-awesome.min.css

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Reigate-banstead.gov.uk, 9% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (848 ms) belongs to the original domain Reigate-banstead.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Reigate-banstead.gov.uk main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 907.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 30.6 kB
  • After minification 25.0 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 5.6 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 23.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 97.1 kB

  • Original 907.3 kB
  • After minification 810.2 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, Reigate Banstead needs image optimization as it can save up to 97.1 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 572 B

  • Original 227.3 kB
  • After minification 227.3 kB
  • After compression 226.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 471 B

  • Original 28.5 kB
  • After minification 28.5 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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. Reigate-banstead.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (66%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reigate Banstead. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 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

reigate-banstead.gov.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

reigate-banstead.gov.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

reigate-banstead.gov.uk 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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Reigate-banstead.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 Reigate-banstead.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 Reigate Banstead. 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: