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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

govtv.co.uk

GOV Radio – Vision for Community Engagement

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

914 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

176 ms

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About Website

Visit govtv.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date GOV Tv content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about govtv.co.uk

GOV TV's media platform offers a bespoke and scalable solution for each Local Council to shine a light on the various facilities on offer throughout their own region.

Visit govtv.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Govtv.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 914 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

govtv.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.22

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

govtv.co.uk

914 ms

style.css

156 ms

jwplayer.js

521 ms

ga.js

6 ms

bground.jpg

746 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Govtv.co.uk, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to L.longtailvideo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (914 ms) belongs to the original domain Govtv.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.3 kB (36%)

Content Size

245.4 kB

After Optimization

157.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Govtv.co.uk main page is 245.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 128.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 9.2 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 6.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 112 B

  • Original 104.5 kB
  • After minification 104.4 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. GOV Tv images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 79.6 kB

  • Original 128.7 kB
  • After minification 128.7 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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 79.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 598 B

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. Govtv.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GOV Tv. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

govtv.co.uk

govtv.co.uk

914 ms

style.css

style.css

156 ms

jwplayer.js

jwplayer.js

521 ms

ga.js

ga.js

6 ms

bground.jpg

bground.jpg

746 ms

table-bground.gif

table-bground.gif

183 ms

top-logo.gif

top-logo.gif

189 ms

nav-button.gif

nav-button.gif

189 ms

news-bground.gif

news-bground.gif

246 ms

race-for-life.jpg

race-for-life.jpg

409 ms

sport-awards.jpg

sport-awards.jpg

338 ms

skyride.jpg

skyride.jpg

416 ms

youth-games.jpg

youth-games.jpg

344 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

442 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

441 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

logo.png

logo.png

56 ms

screen.jpg

screen.jpg

107 ms

Accessibility Review

govtv.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

govtv.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

govtv.co.uk SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Govtv.co.uk 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 Govtv.co.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

govtv.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GOV Tv. 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: