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sharp.direct.gov.uk

SHARP - THE HELMET SAFETY SCHEME

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

125 ms

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About Website

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

Welcome to SHARP, the Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme, a scheme to help motorcyclists make an informed choice when buying a helmet.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sharp.direct.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sharp.direct.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sharp.direct.gov.uk

1937 ms

book.css

156 ms

node.css

157 ms

defaults.css

159 ms

system.css

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Sharp.direct.gov.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Sharp.direct.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 449.6 kB (61%)

Content Size

739.5 kB

After Optimization

289.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sharp.direct.gov.uk main page is 739.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 515.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 43.3 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 61.8 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 43.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 72.9 kB
  • After minification 70.3 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. SHARP Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 329.2 kB

  • Original 515.0 kB
  • After minification 501.4 kB
  • After compression 185.8 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 329.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 74.5 kB

  • Original 88.7 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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. Sharp.direct.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 74.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (82%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SHARP 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sharp.direct.gov.uk

sharp.direct.gov.uk

1937 ms

book.css

book.css

156 ms

node.css

node.css

157 ms

defaults.css

defaults.css

159 ms

system.css

system.css

239 ms

system-menus.css

system-menus.css

160 ms

content-module.css

content-module.css

165 ms

fckeditor.css

fckeditor.css

255 ms

filefield.css

filefield.css

285 ms

simplenews.css

simplenews.css

256 ms

views.css

views.css

259 ms

html-elements.css

html-elements.css

261 ms

tabs.css

tabs.css

323 ms

messages.css

messages.css

334 ms

block-editing.css

block-editing.css

335 ms

wireframes.css

wireframes.css

335 ms

zen.css

zen.css

336 ms

default.css

default.css

437 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

558 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

410 ms

googleanalytics.js

googleanalytics.js

412 ms

jquery.flow.1.0.min.js

jquery.flow.1.0.min.js

411 ms

jquery-custom.js

jquery-custom.js

416 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

487 ms

sharphelmet.js

sharphelmet.js

489 ms

logo.png

logo.png

101 ms

govuk.png

govuk.png

162 ms

home-helmets.jpg

home-helmets.jpg

234 ms

arrow-white.gif

arrow-white.gif

100 ms

arrow-black.gif

arrow-black.gif

100 ms

rating-star-2.gif

rating-star-2.gif

98 ms

rating-star-3.gif

rating-star-3.gif

159 ms

rating-star-4.gif

rating-star-4.gif

159 ms

ga.js

ga.js

48 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

64 ms

sharp-stars.png

sharp-stars.png

84 ms

icon-print.png

icon-print.png

88 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

60 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

20 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

34 ms

SEO Factors

sharp.direct.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 Sharp.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 Sharp.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

sharp.direct.gov.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SHARP 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: