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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

hastings.gov.uk

Hastings Borough Council homepage

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

317 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

hastings.gov.uk screenshot

About Website

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Welcome to the Hastings Borough Council website. We provide services to businesses, residents and visitors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hastings.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 317 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hastings.gov.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.289

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hastings.gov.uk

317 ms

hastings.gov.uk

584 ms

font-icons.css

616 ms

holv2-1.2.min.css

641 ms

responsive-1.0.min.css

577 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Hastings.gov.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) belongs to the original domain Hastings.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 250.6 kB (41%)

Content Size

609.4 kB

After Optimization

358.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hastings.gov.uk main page is 609.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 301.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 191.8 kB

  • Original 211.2 kB
  • After minification 152.6 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 58.6 kB, which is 28% 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 191.8 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 301.3 kB
  • After minification 262.8 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, Hastings needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 75.1 kB
  • After minification 74.9 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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 13.2 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 21.8 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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. Hastings.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hastings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hastings.gov.uk

hastings.gov.uk

317 ms

hastings.gov.uk

hastings.gov.uk

584 ms

font-icons.css

font-icons.css

616 ms

holv2-1.2.min.css

holv2-1.2.min.css

641 ms

responsive-1.0.min.css

responsive-1.0.min.css

577 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

49 ms

css

css

38 ms

hol.min.js

hol.min.js

579 ms

slick.css

slick.css

583 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

592 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

195 ms

holslick.css

holslick.css

661 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

306 ms

search.png

search.png

215 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

255 ms

election_results_may2024.jpg

election_results_may2024.jpg

238 ms

shadow5x5.png

shadow5x5.png

159 ms

pause.png

pause.png

159 ms

citizens-access.jpg

citizens-access.jpg

302 ms

financial_support.jpg

financial_support.jpg

292 ms

hbc-image-font-v1.1.woff

hbc-image-font-v1.1.woff

743 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

133 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

176 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

31 ms

siteanalyze_420652.js

siteanalyze_420652.js

361 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

js

js

53 ms

Accessibility Review

hastings.gov.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

hastings.gov.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

hastings.gov.uk SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Hastings.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 Hastings.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

hastings.gov.uk

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