Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% 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

naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru - Dewis Iaith / Natural Resources Wales - Language Select

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

naturalresourceswales.gov.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit naturalresourceswales.gov.uk now to see the best up-to-date Natural Resources Wales content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

We are a Welsh Government Sponsored Body. Our purpose is to ensure that the natural resources of Wales are sustainably maintained, enhanced and used, now and in the future.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Naturalresourceswales.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 305 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

naturalresourceswales.gov.uk performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

305 ms

splash

77 ms

hco_fonts.css

73 ms

styles-less.css

211 ms

styles-scss.css

341 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Naturalresourceswales.gov.uk, 14% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (605 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.0 kB (19%)

Content Size

471.3 kB

After Optimization

382.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Naturalresourceswales.gov.uk main page is 471.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 357.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 6.4 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 5.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 357.3 kB
  • After minification 351.0 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. Natural Resources Wales images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 8.7 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 77.7 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 98.1 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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. Naturalresourceswales.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Natural Resources Wales. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

naturalresourceswales.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

naturalresourceswales.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

naturalresourceswales.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

    CY

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Naturalresourceswales.gov.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Welsh language. Our system also found out that Naturalresourceswales.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 Natural Resources Wales. 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: