Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

kent.gov.uk

Home - Kent County Council

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kent.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 5.5 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

kent.gov.uk performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.kent.gov.uk

172 ms

style.min.css

235 ms

css

25 ms

main.min.js

484 ms

gm_sidebar.js

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Kent.gov.uk, 21% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 21% (4 requests) were made to Assets.kcc.digital. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (765 ms) belongs to the original domain Kent.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 772.3 kB (68%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

366.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Kent.gov.uk main page is 1.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 501.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 20.1 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.6 kB, which is 15% 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 17.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 183.2 kB
  • After minification 158.0 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, Kent needs image optimization as it can save up to 25.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 294.0 kB

  • Original 430.2 kB
  • After minification 430.1 kB
  • After compression 136.2 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 294.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 435.5 kB

  • Original 501.6 kB
  • After minification 501.1 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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. Kent.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 435.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (35%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kent.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

kent.gov.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

kent.gov.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Kent.gov.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 Kent.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

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