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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

chard.gov.uk

Chard Town Council

Page Load Speed

868 ms in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

635 ms

Page Rendered

140 ms

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About Website

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This site provides all sorts of information for Chard residents and visitors, including the latest news, events, council business and lots more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chard.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 775 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chard.gov.uk performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.11

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chard.gov.uk

93 ms

www.chard.gov.uk

154 ms

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21 ms

dashicons.min.css

64 ms

autoptimize_single_3f2388c21c15fd925916b9660d0d3e52.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Chard.gov.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (154 ms) belongs to the original domain Chard.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chard.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 512.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 101.3 kB

  • Original 123.2 kB
  • After minification 123.0 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 101.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 512.7 kB
  • After minification 512.7 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. Chard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 618 B

  • Original 321.3 kB
  • After minification 321.3 kB
  • After compression 320.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 227.8 kB
  • After minification 227.8 kB
  • After compression 227.7 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. Chard.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (73%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chard.gov.uk

chard.gov.uk

93 ms

www.chard.gov.uk

www.chard.gov.uk

154 ms

autoptimize_f73cda750e8b4a612d392e19ee71706f.css

autoptimize_f73cda750e8b4a612d392e19ee71706f.css

21 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

64 ms

autoptimize_single_3f2388c21c15fd925916b9660d0d3e52.js

autoptimize_single_3f2388c21c15fd925916b9660d0d3e52.js

64 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

74 ms

n2.min.js

n2.min.js

103 ms

smartslider-frontend.min.js

smartslider-frontend.min.js

129 ms

ss-simple.min.js

ss-simple.min.js

102 ms

w-arrow-image.min.js

w-arrow-image.min.js

142 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

102 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

104 ms

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autoptimize_single_b54528a5397b9522a0886b4733cbaca9.js

104 ms

autoptimize_single_11c182e0f84b20b8f7f97d228d77dd56.js

autoptimize_single_11c182e0f84b20b8f7f97d228d77dd56.js

108 ms

select2.full.min.js

select2.full.min.js

109 ms

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autoptimize_single_01277ede4f918daeadba53ac9ba157c0.js

115 ms

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114 ms

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autoptimize_single_b7ab589180b6cf07399e472f449c4993.js

118 ms

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autoptimize_single_22ccd8a8da42c5a1ce742e90a0b9f6eb.js

126 ms

lity.min.js

lity.min.js

127 ms

colorbrightness.min.js

colorbrightness.min.js

129 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

128 ms

swiped-events.min.js

swiped-events.min.js

128 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

129 ms

effect.min.js

effect.min.js

132 ms

autoptimize_single_0482a9a2940050bbb6583a688f26b07d.js

autoptimize_single_0482a9a2940050bbb6583a688f26b07d.js

132 ms

rmp-menu.min.js

rmp-menu.min.js

134 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

136 ms

superfish.min.js

superfish.min.js

136 ms

superfish.args.min.js

superfish.args.min.js

135 ms

skip-links.min.js

skip-links.min.js

135 ms

sws-stickyh.min.js

sws-stickyh.min.js

138 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

139 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

140 ms

slider.min.js

slider.min.js

139 ms

autoptimize_single_4cc86d1003c45134d6838f13e3885db1.js

autoptimize_single_4cc86d1003c45134d6838f13e3885db1.js

141 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

141 ms

wp-util.min.js

wp-util.min.js

144 ms

backbone.min.js

backbone.min.js

89 ms

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autoptimize_single_7f1b8352a1910c51698a480252584138.js

77 ms

cropped-Logo-for-web-45.jpg

cropped-Logo-for-web-45.jpg

57 ms

Cem-2-edit.jpg

Cem-2-edit.jpg

55 ms

Fore-Street.jpeg

Fore-Street.jpeg

54 ms

Statues.jpg

Statues.jpg

54 ms

High-Street.jpeg

High-Street.jpeg

54 ms

View-of-Chard.jpeg

View-of-Chard.jpeg

50 ms

Gateway-Sign.jpg

Gateway-Sign.jpg

50 ms

Banner-new-somerset-logo-online-300x158.jpg

Banner-new-somerset-logo-online-300x158.jpg

127 ms

Guildhall-Image.jpg

Guildhall-Image.jpg

98 ms

CTC-electric-van-350x200-1.jpg

CTC-electric-van-350x200-1.jpg

94 ms

main.js

main.js

9 ms

Accessibility Review

chard.gov.uk accessibility score

97

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

chard.gov.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

chard.gov.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Chard.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 Chard.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

chard.gov.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Chard. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: