Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

digital-government.co.uk

Digital Government Expo | 8 - 9th May 2024 | ExCeL, London

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

153 ms

Resources Loaded

815 ms

Page Rendered

766 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digital-government.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 153 ms and then it took 1.6 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

digital-government.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,360 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.digital-government.co.uk

153 ms

css2

103 ms

legacy.js

79 ms

modern.js

85 ms

extract-css-runtime-4ff082510f425dab4b1b-min.en-US.js

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Digital-government.co.uk, 33% (16 requests) were made to Images.squarespace-cdn.com and 19% (9 requests) were made to Assets.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (357 ms) relates to the external source App.sparkplugin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 765.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Digital-government.co.uk main page is 3.4 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 502.5 kB

  • Original 563.1 kB
  • After minification 498.6 kB
  • After compression 60.6 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 64.5 kB, which is 11% 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 502.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 248.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, Digital Government needs image optimization as it can save up to 248.3 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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

-17%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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. Digital-government.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (58%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital Government. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

digital-government.co.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

digital-government.co.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

digital-government.co.uk SEO score

98

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 Digital-government.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 Digital-government.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

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