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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

civilserviceworld.co.uk

Civil service, Westminster, Whitehall news & analysis for civil servants | Civil Service World maga

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

559 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Civilserviceworld.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

civilserviceworld.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,060 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.civilserviceworld.com

200 ms

www.civilserviceworld.com

747 ms

core.css

314 ms

layout.css

319 ms

css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Civilserviceworld.co.uk, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Cmp.inmobi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (756 ms) relates to the external source Civilserviceworld.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 229.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Civilserviceworld.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 101.9 kB

  • Original 125.4 kB
  • After minification 116.2 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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 101.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 98.4 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Civil Service World images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 571.4 kB
  • After minification 564.4 kB
  • After compression 545.3 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. Civilserviceworld.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (42%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Civil Service World. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.civilserviceworld.com

www.civilserviceworld.com

200 ms

www.civilserviceworld.com

www.civilserviceworld.com

747 ms

core.css

core.css

314 ms

layout.css

layout.css

319 ms

css

css

59 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

43 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

335 ms

core.js

core.js

339 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

340 ms

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121 ms

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66 ms

adsbygoogle.js

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76 ms

engage.min.js

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63 ms

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49 ms

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343 ms

ScriptResource.axd

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417 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

342 ms

js

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64 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

77 ms

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149 ms

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147 ms

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149 ms

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156 ms

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756 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

44 ms

slotcar_library.js

slotcar_library.js

81 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

153 ms

csw-bg-logo.svg

csw-bg-logo.svg

151 ms

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73 ms

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104 ms

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107 ms

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79 ms

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81 ms

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106 ms

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106 ms

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97 ms

adCollapse.js

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90 ms

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47 ms

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409 ms

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487 ms

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409 ms

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82 ms

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83 ms

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4 ms

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geoip

3 ms

svrGP.aspx

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124 ms

cmp-list.json

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1 ms

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4 ms

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15 ms

Accessibility Review

civilserviceworld.co.uk accessibility score

82

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

civilserviceworld.co.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

civilserviceworld.co.uk SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Civilserviceworld.co.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 Civilserviceworld.co.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

civilserviceworld.co.uk

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