621 ms in total
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Visit service.gov.ukWe analyzed Service.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 590 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.
service.gov.uk performance score
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value
score
weighting
Value2.2 s
78/100
10%
Value2.9 s
80/100
25%
Value2.2 s
99/100
10%
Value100 ms
98/100
30%
Value0.78
5/100
15%
Value2.9 s
96/100
10%
31 ms
6 ms
10 ms
12 ms
24 ms
Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Service.gov.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (72 ms) relates to the external source Www.gov.uk.
Page size can be reduced by 105.0 kB (68%)
153.4 kB
48.3 kB
In fact, the total size of Service.gov.uk main page is 153.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 117.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 103.9 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 103.9 kB or 88% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 982 B
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, Service needs image optimization as it can save up to 982 B or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.
Potential reduce by 189 B
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. Service.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.
Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (58%)
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8
The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Service. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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service.gov.uk accessibility score
service.gov.uk best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
service.gov.uk SEO score
Mobile Friendly
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Impact
Issue
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
EN
EN
UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Service.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 Service.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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Service. 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: