Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk

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Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

477 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 477 ms and then it took 8.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.328

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk

477 ms

maindvlanew.css

287 ms

mini-auction.css

183 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

184 ms

jquery.loadmask.css

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 242 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (234 requests) were addressed to the original Dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk, 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 0% (1 request) were made to Seal.verisign.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 638.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

853.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk main page is 1.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 698.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 11.3 kB, which is 14% 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 70.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 698.6 kB
  • After minification 667.8 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. DVLA Registrations Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 419.6 kB

  • Original 576.6 kB
  • After minification 542.7 kB
  • After compression 157.0 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 419.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 117.9 kB

  • Original 135.9 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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. Dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 207 (86%)

Requests Now

241

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 241 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DVLA Registrations Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Dvlaregistrations.direct.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 Dvlaregistrations.direct.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 DVLA Registrations Direct. 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: