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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk

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Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

208 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 208 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.227

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk

208 ms

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

480 ms

app.css

445 ms

jquery.loadmask.css

265 ms

ui.all.css

265 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk, 93% (52 requests) were made to Dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk and 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

486.8 kB

After Optimization

421.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk main page is 486.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 258.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 35.6 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 12.2 kB, which is 34% 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 29.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 258.9 kB
  • After minification 239.1 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 155.0 kB
  • After minification 154.5 kB
  • After compression 141.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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 has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (60%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 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 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk

208 ms

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

480 ms

app.css

app.css

445 ms

jquery.loadmask.css

jquery.loadmask.css

265 ms

ui.all.css

ui.all.css

265 ms

tiny-slider.css

tiny-slider.css

34 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

441 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

264 ms

jquery.tools.js

jquery.tools.js

299 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

523 ms

jquery.newsticker.pack.js

jquery.newsticker.pack.js

561 ms

jquery.countdown.js

jquery.countdown.js

562 ms

jquery.loadmask.js

jquery.loadmask.js

558 ms

jquery.platePicker.js

jquery.platePicker.js

700 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js

949 ms

IE-font-replacement.js

IE-font-replacement.js

783 ms

library.js

library.js

821 ms

dvlaCookies.js

dvlaCookies.js

819 ms

onready.js

onready.js

821 ms

mini-auction.css

mini-auction.css

958 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

1223 ms

design_ui.js

design_ui.js

1079 ms

tiny-slider.js

tiny-slider.js

33 ms

vanillajs-scrollspy.min.js

vanillajs-scrollspy.min.js

22 ms

ui.base.css

ui.base.css

819 ms

ui.theme.css

ui.theme.css

855 ms

ui.core.css

ui.core.css

127 ms

ui.resizable.css

ui.resizable.css

261 ms

ui.accordion.css

ui.accordion.css

262 ms

ui.autocomplete.css

ui.autocomplete.css

298 ms

ui.button.css

ui.button.css

333 ms

ui.dialog.css

ui.dialog.css

402 ms

ui.datepicker.css

ui.datepicker.css

424 ms

ui.progressbar.css

ui.progressbar.css

558 ms

ui.slider.css

ui.slider.css

558 ms

ui.tabs.css

ui.tabs.css

557 ms

DVLA_logo2018.png

DVLA_logo2018.png

271 ms

icon-heart.svg

icon-heart.svg

125 ms

en_new_series.jpg

en_new_series.jpg

409 ms

en_dateless.jpg

en_dateless.jpg

460 ms

en_new_prefix_series.jpg

en_new_prefix_series.jpg

630 ms

en_prices_from_250.jpg

en_prices_from_250.jpg

372 ms

en-follow_us-2023.jpg

en-follow_us-2023.jpg

470 ms

new-series.jpg

new-series.jpg

531 ms

dateless.jpg

dateless.jpg

670 ms

new-prefix-series.jpg

new-prefix-series.jpg

667 ms

prices-from.jpg

prices-from.jpg

718 ms

social-media.jpg

social-media.jpg

729 ms

Auction180622-banner-660x310.jpg

Auction180622-banner-660x310.jpg

962 ms

icon-twitter.svg

icon-twitter.svg

888 ms

icon-facebook.svg

icon-facebook.svg

927 ms

icon-instagram.svg

icon-instagram.svg

928 ms

dvlavrm-webfont.woff

dvlavrm-webfont.woff

965 ms

54 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

993 ms

1178 ms

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

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Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

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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

dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk

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: