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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

gfirstlep.com

GFirst LEP | Gloucestershire Local Enterprise Partnership

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

935 ms

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About Website

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It’s GFirst LEP's mission to make Gloucestershire great by driving sustainable economic growth throughout the county.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gfirstlep.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gfirstlep.com performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.796

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gfirstlep.com

1279 ms

normalize.css

123 ms

jquery-ui.css

60 ms

default.css

235 ms

flexslider.css

353 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Gfirstlep.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Gfirstlep.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (17%)

Content Size

9.8 MB

After Optimization

8.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gfirstlep.com main page is 9.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 37.0 kB

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 37.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 9.3 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Obviously, GFirst LEP needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 380.7 kB
  • After minification 380.7 kB
  • After compression 362.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 76.6 kB
  • After minification 70.3 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Gfirstlep.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (43%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GFirst LEP. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gfirstlep.com

www.gfirstlep.com

1279 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

123 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

60 ms

default.css

default.css

235 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

353 ms

main.css

main.css

601 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

354 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

69 ms

simple-line-icons.css

simple-line-icons.css

74 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

85 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

71 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

71 ms

parallax.min.js

parallax.min.js

350 ms

jquery.sidr.min.js

jquery.sidr.min.js

339 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

388 ms

custom.js

custom.js

508 ms

functions.js

functions.js

500 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

596 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

86 ms

jquery.counterup.js

jquery.counterup.js

494 ms

feg4cuw.js

feg4cuw.js

220 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

530 ms

jquery.unveil.js

jquery.unveil.js

648 ms

js

js

113 ms

api

api

162 ms

api.js

api.js

182 ms

js

js

103 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

317 ms

1083 ms

transparency.png

transparency.png

249 ms

newsletter.png

newsletter.png

249 ms

logo.png

logo.png

207 ms

gfirst-anthology-banner.jpg

gfirst-anthology-banner.jpg

526 ms

made-in-gloucestershire-banner.jpg

made-in-gloucestershire-banner.jpg

907 ms

invest-in-gloucestershire-banner.jpg

invest-in-gloucestershire-banner.jpg

1053 ms

careers-hub-banner.jpg

careers-hub-banner.jpg

947 ms

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a38-berkeley-bridges-standard.jpg

1032 ms

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1137 ms

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1402 ms

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960_685zero-avia.png

1346 ms

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14244_357made-in-gloucestershire-non-solo-pasta.jpg

1079 ms

video.png

video.png

1164 ms

18301_873made-in-gloucestershire_logo.png

18301_873made-in-gloucestershire_logo.png

1210 ms

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1220 ms

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1340 ms

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1338 ms

signup.jpg

signup.jpg

1504 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

1505 ms

ERDF-Logo.png

ERDF-Logo.png

1519 ms

hm-gov_white.png

hm-gov_white.png

1525 ms

dc_badge1.png

dc_badge1.png

1517 ms

SME-Committed-Badge.png

SME-Committed-Badge.png

1538 ms

arrow-left.png

arrow-left.png

1682 ms

arrow-right.png

arrow-right.png

1680 ms

arrow-left-dark.png

arrow-left-dark.png

1677 ms

arrow-right-dark.png

arrow-right-dark.png

1680 ms

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36 ms

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18 ms

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34 ms

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33 ms

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159 ms

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32 ms

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30 ms

fallback

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32 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

27 ms

p.gif

p.gif

32 ms

css

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34 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

4 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

25 ms

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28 ms

Accessibility Review

gfirstlep.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gfirstlep.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gfirstlep.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gfirstlep.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Gfirstlep.com 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

gfirstlep.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GFirst LEP. 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: