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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

eastlothian.gov.uk

249 ms

www.eastlothian.gov.uk

492 ms

css

39 ms

orbit.css

86 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Eastlothian.gov.uk, 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (492 ms) belongs to the original domain Eastlothian.gov.uk.

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Eastlothian.gov.uk main page is 1.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

Original 58.4 kB
After minification 48.2 kB
After compression 10.3 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 10.2 kB, which is 17% 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 48.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

Original 1.5 MB
After minification 1.4 MB

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. East Lothian images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 75 B

Original 172.8 kB
After minification 172.8 kB
After compression 172.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 96 B

Original 48.3 kB
After minification 48.3 kB
After compression 48.2 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. Eastlothian.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of East Lothian. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

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 Eastlothian.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 Eastlothian.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

eastlothian.gov.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of East Lothian. 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:

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Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)