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dudley.gov.uk

Residents | Dudley Council

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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About Website

Visit dudley.gov.uk now to see the best up-to-date Dudley content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dudley.gov.uk

We provide lots of services to residents within the Dudley Borough, including: planning, Council Tax, bins and recycling, housing, parking and roads, safeguarding, among many others.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dudley.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 6.2 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

dudley.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

dudley.gov.uk

1051 ms

www.dudley.gov.uk

1886 ms

ui.css

442 ms

RenderEngine_Global.css

349 ms

RenderEngine.css

431 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Dudley.gov.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Uk1.siteimprove.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Dudley.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 632.5 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Dudley.gov.uk main page is 1.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 968.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 75.2 kB

  • Original 90.9 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 11.0 kB, which is 12% 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 75.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 968.1 kB
  • After minification 912.3 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. Dudley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 233.1 kB

  • Original 334.8 kB
  • After minification 334.5 kB
  • After compression 101.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 233.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 268.4 kB

  • Original 307.6 kB
  • After minification 208.8 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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. Dudley.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 268.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (49%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dudley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

dudley.gov.uk SEO score

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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 Dudley.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 Dudley.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 Dudley. 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: