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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% 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

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ofcom.org.uk

Home - Ofcom

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

ofcom.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit ofcom.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Ofcom content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ofcom.org.uk

Ofcom is the UK’s communications regulator. We regulate the TV, radio and video on demand sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobiles, postal services, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ofcom.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 2.5 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

ofcom.org.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ofcom.org.uk

293 ms

css.css

623 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

381 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

plugins.js

472 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Ofcom.org.uk, 29% (11 requests) were made to Styles.ofcom.org.uk and 11% (4 requests) were made to Consumers.ofcom.org.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (699 ms) relates to the external source Consumers.ofcom.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 331.6 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

791.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ofcom.org.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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 791.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 48.6 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 38.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 71.5 kB

  • Original 791.6 kB
  • After minification 720.0 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. Ofcom images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 81.5 kB

  • Original 118.1 kB
  • After minification 79.5 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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 81.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 139.9 kB

  • Original 164.6 kB
  • After minification 124.7 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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. Ofcom.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 139.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (42%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ofcom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ofcom.org.uk

ofcom.org.uk

293 ms

css.css

css.css

623 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

381 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

472 ms

ofcom.js

ofcom.js

506 ms

in.js

in.js

6 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

6 ms

ga.js

ga.js

90 ms

business-advice.png

business-advice.png

125 ms

careers-button2.png

careers-button2.png

292 ms

maps-button2.png

maps-button2.png

276 ms

email-button2.png

email-button2.png

298 ms

social-icons.png

social-icons.png

107 ms

ofcom.gif

ofcom.gif

108 ms

container-bg-spectrum-top.gif

container-bg-spectrum-top.gif

109 ms

secureAnonymousFramework

secureAnonymousFramework

114 ms

dcr-blue.jpg

dcr-blue.jpg

615 ms

sad-lady-banner.jpg

sad-lady-banner.jpg

557 ms

Texting-banner.jpg

Texting-banner.jpg

478 ms

calculator

calculator

699 ms

c-b-head-bg.png

c-b-head-bg.png

199 ms

grey-arrow.png

grey-arrow.png

166 ms

all.js

all.js

276 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

116 ms

icons_print.gif

icons_print.gif

115 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

collect

collect

67 ms

sprite_connect_v14.png

sprite_connect_v14.png

35 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

24 ms

print.css

print.css

122 ms

122 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

208 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

414 ms

like.php

like.php

82 ms

vpc6VNjRPXV.js

vpc6VNjRPXV.js

544 ms

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

607 ms

Accessibility Review

ofcom.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ofcom.org.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ofcom.org.uk SEO score

92

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 doesn't use 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 Ofcom.org.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 Ofcom.org.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

ofcom.org.uk

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