Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

609 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Publications.dcsf.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 609 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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609 ms

532 ms

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1003 ms

govuk-template-78368781f77ad5f036d7f8bada53f0034cbc4b5ddb127d4cf0380702a1f77864.css

97 ms

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161 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Publications.dcsf.gov.uk, 74% (20 requests) were made to Assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Www.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 853.7 kB (67%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

411.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Publications.dcsf.gov.uk main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 784.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 117.2 kB

  • Original 149.7 kB
  • After minification 144.8 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 117.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 11.4 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. Obviously, Publications Dcsf needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 206.0 kB

  • Original 315.1 kB
  • After minification 312.7 kB
  • After compression 109.1 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 206.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 526.5 kB

  • Original 784.7 kB
  • After minification 781.1 kB
  • After compression 258.2 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. Publications.dcsf.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 526.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (45%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Publications Dcsf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

publications.dcsf.gov.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Publications.dcsf.gov.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Publications.dcsf.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 Publications Dcsf. 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: