Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

council-exchange.co.uk

Council Exchange - House Exchange - Homeswap - Council House Exchange

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

580 ms

council-exchange.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Council House Exchange, Home swap, Mutual Exchange, House Exchanges For Tenants Of Council And Housing Association Properties

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Key Findings

We analyzed Council-exchange.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

council-exchange.co.uk performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.212

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

council-exchange.co.uk

1270 ms

ok.css

1733 ms

ok1.css

1730 ms

ok2.css

1732 ms

postings.css

1734 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Council-exchange.co.uk, 21% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 16% (15 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Council-exchange.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 440.6 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Council-exchange.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 90.8 kB

  • Original 117.9 kB
  • After minification 108.3 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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 90.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 51.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Council Exchange images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 280.7 kB

  • Original 504.4 kB
  • After minification 493.8 kB
  • After compression 223.6 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 280.7 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 13.0 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Council-exchange.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (51%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Council Exchange. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

council-exchange.co.uk accessibility score

71

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

council-exchange.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

council-exchange.co.uk SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Council-exchange.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Council-exchange.co.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 Council Exchange. 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: