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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

www4.halton.gov.uk

Halton Borough Council Website: HBC Services Online

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

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About Website

Welcome to www4.halton.gov.uk homepage info - get ready to check Www 4 Halton best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about www4.halton.gov.uk

Information for residents about Halton Borough Council services including council tax, bins and recycling, schools, leisure, streets and parking.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Www4.halton.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

www4.halton.gov.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www4.halton.gov.uk

285 ms

www.halton.gov.uk

282 ms

www3.halton.gov.uk

473 ms

Home.aspx

232 ms

pagelayouts15.css

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Www4.halton.gov.uk, 58% (37 requests) were made to Www3.halton.gov.uk and 11% (7 requests) were made to Cmp.inmobi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (955 ms) relates to the external source Www3.halton.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 979.4 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

912.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Www4.halton.gov.uk main page is 1.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 881.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 677.8 kB

  • Original 807.9 kB
  • After minification 781.3 kB
  • After compression 130.1 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 677.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 24.5 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, Www 4 Halton needs image optimization as it can save up to 8.1 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 220.6 kB

  • Original 881.0 kB
  • After minification 832.4 kB
  • After compression 660.4 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 220.6 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 72.9 kB

  • Original 170.8 kB
  • After minification 158.2 kB
  • After compression 97.9 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. Www4.halton.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.9 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (72%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Www 4 Halton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www4.halton.gov.uk

www4.halton.gov.uk

285 ms

www.halton.gov.uk

www.halton.gov.uk

282 ms

www3.halton.gov.uk

www3.halton.gov.uk

473 ms

Home.aspx

Home.aspx

232 ms

pagelayouts15.css

pagelayouts15.css

190 ms

corev15.css

corev15.css

376 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

536 ms

index_BS.css

index_BS.css

545 ms

ciu.css

ciu.css

434 ms

halton_BS.css

halton_BS.css

434 ms

css

css

29 ms

css

css

48 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

bootstrap-icons.css

17 ms

initstrings.js

initstrings.js

415 ms

init.js

init.js

566 ms

theming.js

theming.js

521 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

633 ms

blank.js

blank.js

566 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

625 ms

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

758 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

751 ms

bootstrap4.min.js

bootstrap4.min.js

955 ms

haltonbc

haltonbc

328 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

684 ms

SP15ModalDialog.js

SP15ModalDialog.js

738 ms

public

public

422 ms

public

public

317 ms

favicon.ico

favicon.ico

130 ms

dclc.png

dclc.png

153 ms

fec.png

fec.png

216 ms

pagelayouts15.css

pagelayouts15.css

144 ms

corev15.css

corev15.css

145 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

146 ms

index_BS.css

index_BS.css

147 ms

ciu.css

ciu.css

168 ms

halton_BS.css

halton_BS.css

142 ms

css

css

80 ms

css

css

135 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

bootstrap-icons.css

24 ms

cse.js

cse.js

114 ms

bootstrap-icons.woff

bootstrap-icons.woff

54 ms

SP.Web.GetContextWebThemeData

SP.Web.GetContextWebThemeData

161 ms

choice.js

choice.js

422 ms

header_BS.html

header_BS.html

120 ms

footer_BS.html

footer_BS.html

121 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

38 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

96 ms

default.css

default.css

97 ms

strings.js

strings.js

339 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

50 ms

branding.png

branding.png

22 ms

clear.png

clear.png

20 ms

hbc_logosmall.png

hbc_logosmall.png

250 ms

core.js

core.js

254 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

3 ms

geoip

geoip

3 ms

cmp-list.json

cmp-list.json

2 ms

cmp2ui-en.js

cmp2ui-en.js

5 ms

vendor-list-trimmed-v1.json

vendor-list-trimmed-v1.json

108 ms

google-atp-list.json

google-atp-list.json

177 ms

api.cmp.inmobi.com

api.cmp.inmobi.com

386 ms

mquery.js

mquery.js

96 ms

sp.init.js

sp.init.js

97 ms

sp.core.js

sp.core.js

99 ms

Accessibility Review

www4.halton.gov.uk accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

www4.halton.gov.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

www4.halton.gov.uk SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Www4.halton.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 Www4.halton.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

www4.halton.gov.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Www 4 Halton. 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: