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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

broxbourne.gov.uk

Home – Borough of Broxbourne Council

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

331 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

190 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Broxbourne.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 331 ms and then it took 2 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

broxbourne.gov.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

broxbourne.gov.uk

331 ms

www.broxbourne.gov.uk

610 ms

css

49 ms

orbit.css

87 ms

modernizr-custom.js

237 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Broxbourne.gov.uk, 9% (3 requests) were made to Chatbot-prod.broxbourne.gov.uk and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (722 ms) relates to the external source Chatbot-prod.broxbourne.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.3 kB (26%)

Content Size

778.7 kB

After Optimization

572.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Broxbourne.gov.uk main page is 778.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 272.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 62.6 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 47.5 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 26.1 kB, which is 35% 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 62.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 178.0 kB
  • After minification 172.5 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. Broxbourne images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 88.1 kB

  • Original 254.6 kB
  • After minification 254.6 kB
  • After compression 166.5 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 88.1 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 272.4 kB
  • After minification 269.1 kB
  • After compression 222.4 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. Broxbourne.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.0 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (55%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Broxbourne. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

broxbourne.gov.uk

broxbourne.gov.uk

331 ms

www.broxbourne.gov.uk

www.broxbourne.gov.uk

610 ms

css

css

49 ms

orbit.css

orbit.css

87 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

237 ms

js

js

70 ms

swfobject.min.js

swfobject.min.js

233 ms

icons.data.svg.css

icons.data.svg.css

337 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

38 ms

orbit.js

orbit.js

319 ms

almond.min.js

almond.min.js

334 ms

util.min.js

util.min.js

334 ms

widget.js

widget.js

334 ms

uc.js

uc.js

33 ms

flex.chat.pluginv2.css

flex.chat.pluginv2.css

648 ms

flex.chat.pluginv2.js

flex.chat.pluginv2.js

722 ms

broxbourne-logo.png

broxbourne-logo.png

167 ms

Beacon_Heights_Digital_optimised_new_Oct_22.jpg

Beacon_Heights_Digital_optimised_new_Oct_22.jpg

168 ms

230399_Homepage_Logo_Tiles_Regeneration_200x150px4_1.jpg

230399_Homepage_Logo_Tiles_Regeneration_200x150px4_1.jpg

166 ms

200x150px_Spotlight_Reduced.jpg

200x150px_Spotlight_Reduced.jpg

167 ms

200x150px_Be.Broxbourne.jpg

200x150px_Be.Broxbourne.jpg

167 ms

logo-ss.jpg

logo-ss.jpg

166 ms

js

js

117 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

167 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

111 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

167 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

194 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

155 ms

broxbourne-logo.svg

broxbourne-logo.svg

99 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

8 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

80 ms

BobDockRight.png

BobDockRight.png

80 ms

Accessibility Review

broxbourne.gov.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

broxbourne.gov.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

broxbourne.gov.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Broxbourne.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 Broxbourne.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

broxbourne.gov.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Broxbourne. 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: