Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk

Digital Marketplace

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

123 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

182 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 123 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.417

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

how-to-use-cloudstore

123 ms

www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk

394 ms

govuk-template.css

248 ms

fonts.css

743 ms

application.css

499 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) relates to the external source Digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 267.3 kB (48%)

Content Size

551.6 kB

After Optimization

284.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk main page is 551.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 389.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 2.1 kB, which is 18% 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 8.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 190 B

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Gcloud Civilservice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 82.1 kB

  • Original 145.2 kB
  • After minification 144.0 kB
  • After compression 63.1 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 82.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 176.1 kB

  • Original 389.4 kB
  • After minification 381.6 kB
  • After compression 213.3 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. Gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 176.1 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (27%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gcloud Civilservice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Gcloud.civilservice.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 Gcloud.civilservice.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

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