Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% 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

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

nmo.gov.uk

National Measurement and Regulation Office - GOV.UK

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

447 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

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About Website

Visit nmo.gov.uk now to see the best up-to-date Nmo content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nmo.gov.uk

The aim of the National Measurement and Regulation Office (NMRO) is to simplify technical regulation for the benefit of British business.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nmo.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 447 ms and then it took 1.7 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

nmo.gov.uk performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.644

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nmo.gov.uk

447 ms

national-measurement-and-regulation-office

143 ms

lux-measurer-505eef3e243b1d08ea7c4b945ebe1ae146d896db61366e415b30cc1bcd84cbdc.js

6 ms

rum-loader-c53469dcb841d7b228c914a2e8bdcf3b831a578adf7d4f21cf9da5b85df7381e.js

17 ms

application-2c94784e6080dc2a919bfbcd48e30ff9f75b4d356fd013c0a32f49f29a467352.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nmo.gov.uk, 86% (12 requests) were made to Www.gov.uk and 7% (1 request) were made to Assets.publishing.service.gov.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (669 ms) relates to the external source Assets.publishing.service.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.6 kB (44%)

Content Size

147.4 kB

After Optimization

82.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Nmo.gov.uk main page is 147.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 76.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 66.0 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 10.4 kB, which is 14% 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 64.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 11.6 kB
  • After minification 11.6 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. Nmo images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.4 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 59.4 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. Nmo.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (60%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nmo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nmo.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nmo.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

nmo.gov.uk SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Nmo.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 Nmo.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 data is detected on the main page of Nmo. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: