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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

herefordshire.gov.uk

Herefordshire Council – Herefordshire Council

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

448 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herefordshire.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 448 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herefordshire.gov.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

herefordshire.gov.uk

448 ms

www.herefordshire.gov.uk

880 ms

DependencyHandler.axd

168 ms

modernizr.custom.js

332 ms

DependencyHandler.axd

416 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Herefordshire.gov.uk, 13% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (880 ms) belongs to the original domain Herefordshire.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 371.9 kB (68%)

Content Size

550.7 kB

After Optimization

178.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Herefordshire.gov.uk main page is 550.7 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 420.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 23.5 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.3 kB, which is 12% 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 20.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 31.3 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. Herefordshire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 295.6 kB

  • Original 420.5 kB
  • After minification 417.2 kB
  • After compression 124.8 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 295.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 72.2 kB
  • After minification 70.7 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Herefordshire.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herefordshire. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

herefordshire.gov.uk

herefordshire.gov.uk

448 ms

www.herefordshire.gov.uk

www.herefordshire.gov.uk

880 ms

DependencyHandler.axd

DependencyHandler.axd

168 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

332 ms

DependencyHandler.axd

DependencyHandler.axd

416 ms

ga.js

ga.js

147 ms

herefordshire-council-logo-responsive.svg

herefordshire-council-logo-responsive.svg

134 ms

responsive-sprite.svg

responsive-sprite.svg

449 ms

ipad-news-555x216.jpg

ipad-news-555x216.jpg

156 ms

WISH-555x216.png

WISH-555x216.png

192 ms

do-it-online-bg.svg

do-it-online-bg.svg

250 ms

option-group-control-sprite.svg

option-group-control-sprite.svg

340 ms

sign-up-for-alerts.svg

sign-up-for-alerts.svg

507 ms

keepalive

keepalive

169 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

herefordshire.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

herefordshire.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

herefordshire.gov.uk SEO score

99

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Herefordshire.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 Herefordshire.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

herefordshire.gov.uk

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