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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

leicester.gov.uk

Home - Leicester City Council

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

621 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

192 ms

leicester.gov.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Leicester content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about leicester.gov.uk

Leicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Leicester.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 621 ms and then it took 2.4 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

leicester.gov.uk performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

leicester.gov.uk

621 ms

app.css

493 ms

slimmage.js

238 ms

modernizr.js

1080 ms

lcc.js

1028 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Leicester.gov.uk, 8% (3 requests) were made to Whatson.leicester.gov.uk and 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Leicester.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 489.9 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

548.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Leicester.gov.uk main page is 1.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 420.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 50.8 kB

  • Original 64.0 kB
  • After minification 53.9 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 10.2 kB, which is 16% 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 50.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 420.5 kB
  • After minification 407.3 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. Leicester images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 233.9 kB

  • Original 331.0 kB
  • After minification 291.5 kB
  • After compression 97.1 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 233.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 192.0 kB

  • Original 222.5 kB
  • After minification 213.6 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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. Leicester.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 192.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (27%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Leicester. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

leicester.gov.uk

leicester.gov.uk

621 ms

app.css

app.css

493 ms

slimmage.js

slimmage.js

238 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

1080 ms

lcc.js

lcc.js

1028 ms

browsercheck.js

browsercheck.js

773 ms

socitm_wrapper.aspx

socitm_wrapper.aspx

388 ms

socitm-snippet.js

socitm-snippet.js

83 ms

other11.jpg

other11.jpg

481 ms

lcc-masthead-logo.png

lcc-masthead-logo.png

173 ms

orangebag_blackbin.jpg

orangebag_blackbin.jpg

175 ms

membership.jpg

membership.jpg

176 ms

istock_000005912769xsmall.jpg

istock_000005912769xsmall.jpg

174 ms

grafitti-1.jpg

grafitti-1.jpg

177 ms

tower-block.jpg

tower-block.jpg

333 ms

bills.jpg

bills.jpg

177 ms

mayor.jpg

mayor.jpg

178 ms

moodboard-05-04-2014_r1_c1.gif

moodboard-05-04-2014_r1_c1.gif

179 ms

elections3.jpeg

elections3.jpeg

315 ms

ingub075.jpg

ingub075.jpg

314 ms

arts_museums5.jpg

arts_museums5.jpg

400 ms

jewrywall.jpg

jewrywall.jpg

399 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

7 ms

lcc-sprites.png

lcc-sprites.png

260 ms

Cantarell-Regular-webfont.woff

Cantarell-Regular-webfont.woff

258 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

259 ms

CandelaBook-webfont.woff

CandelaBook-webfont.woff

277 ms

waiting.gif

waiting.gif

165 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

117 ms

socitm-newintro.min.js

socitm-newintro.min.js

114 ms

elections-1-cropped.jpg

elections-1-cropped.jpg

172 ms

love-leicester.jpg

love-leicester.jpg

160 ms

coins-pic.jpg

coins-pic.jpg

253 ms

lcc-sprites.png

lcc-sprites.png

170 ms

cantarell-regular-webfont.woff

cantarell-regular-webfont.woff

170 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

185 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

12 ms

candelabook-webfont.woff

candelabook-webfont.woff

219 ms

waiting.gif

waiting.gif

242 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

Accessibility Review

leicester.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

leicester.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

leicester.gov.uk SEO score

93

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 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 Leicester.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 Leicester.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

leicester.gov.uk

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