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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

kent.gov.uk

Home - Kent County Council

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kent.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kent.gov.uk performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kent.gov.uk

117 ms

www.kent.gov.uk

94 ms

core.min.css

32 ms

css

37 ms

newsletter-icon.svg

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Kent.gov.uk, 21% (3 requests) were made to Images.kent.gov.uk and 7% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (601 ms) belongs to the original domain Kent.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 53.7 kB (19%)

Content Size

276.0 kB

After Optimization

222.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kent.gov.uk main page is 276.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 208.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 37.7 kB

  • Original 51.6 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 6.0 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 37.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 208.0 kB
  • After minification 192.4 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. Kent images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 396 B

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 16.4 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. Kent.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kent. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

kent.gov.uk

kent.gov.uk

117 ms

www.kent.gov.uk

www.kent.gov.uk

94 ms

core.min.css

core.min.css

32 ms

css

css

37 ms

newsletter-icon.svg

newsletter-icon.svg

21 ms

National_Walking_Month_-_Explore_Kent_under6mb1.jpg

National_Walking_Month_-_Explore_Kent_under6mb1.jpg

173 ms

Early-May-bank-holiday-FM.jpg

Early-May-bank-holiday-FM.jpg

601 ms

Kent-Together-image-signpost.jpg

Kent-Together-image-signpost.jpg

174 ms

Dont-Do-Nothing-signpost.png

Dont-Do-Nothing-signpost.png

226 ms

Report-a-porthole__image-signpost.jpg

Report-a-porthole__image-signpost.jpg

536 ms

kcc-logo.svg

kcc-logo.svg

53 ms

Dementia-awards.jpg

Dementia-awards.jpg

158 ms

MicrosoftTeams-image-3.png

MicrosoftTeams-image-3.png

225 ms

font

font

30 ms

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

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

    EN

  • 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 it matches the claimed language. 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

kent.gov.uk

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: