Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

oxfordshire.gov.uk

Home | Oxfordshire County Council

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

324 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oxfordshire.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 324 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oxfordshire.gov.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oxfordshire.gov.uk

324 ms

www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

323 ms

www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

436 ms

82 ms

336 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Oxfordshire.gov.uk, 3% (3 requests) were made to Socitm.govmetric.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Oxfordshire.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 718.1 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

587.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Oxfordshire.gov.uk main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 509.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 113.6 kB
  • After minification 102.2 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 91.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 99.0 kB

  • Original 509.1 kB
  • After minification 410.1 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. Obviously, Oxfordshire needs image optimization as it can save up to 99.0 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 284.9 kB

  • Original 396.6 kB
  • After minification 272.2 kB
  • After compression 111.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 284.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 243.2 kB

  • Original 286.4 kB
  • After minification 272.4 kB
  • After compression 43.2 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. Oxfordshire.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 243.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (35%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

62

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oxfordshire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

oxfordshire.gov.uk accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Best Practices

oxfordshire.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

oxfordshire.gov.uk SEO score

89

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Oxfordshire.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 Oxfordshire.gov.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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