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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

placeservices.co.uk

Place Services at Essex County Council | Place Services

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

219 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Placeservices.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 219 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

placeservices.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.508

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

placeservices.co.uk

219 ms

www.placeservices.co.uk

457 ms

9f978a4c-5b98-4e9c-91fa-6d5425d14628.css

44 ms

reset.css

96 ms

skeleton.css

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Placeservices.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (641 ms) belongs to the original domain Placeservices.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Placeservices.co.uk main page is 1.2 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.5 kB, which is 22% 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 15.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Place Services images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 91.0 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 81.2 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 9.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 23.5 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. Placeservices.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.1 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (45%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Place Services. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

placeservices.co.uk

placeservices.co.uk

219 ms

www.placeservices.co.uk

www.placeservices.co.uk

457 ms

9f978a4c-5b98-4e9c-91fa-6d5425d14628.css

9f978a4c-5b98-4e9c-91fa-6d5425d14628.css

44 ms

reset.css

reset.css

96 ms

skeleton.css

skeleton.css

189 ms

design.css

design.css

284 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

347 ms

menu.css

menu.css

352 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.js

jquery.easing-1.3.js

350 ms

menu.js

menu.js

365 ms

matchHeight.js

matchHeight.js

349 ms

royalslider.css

royalslider.css

396 ms

rs-minimal-white.css

rs-minimal-white.css

444 ms

jquery.royalslider.min.js

jquery.royalslider.min.js

451 ms

SkipTo.js

SkipTo.js

449 ms

SkipTo.css

SkipTo.css

442 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

38 ms

logo-place-strap.png

logo-place-strap.png

179 ms

ptnz.png

ptnz.png

273 ms

i-search.png

i-search.png

174 ms

hadleigh-castle.jpg

hadleigh-castle.jpg

641 ms

street.jpg

street.jpg

402 ms

woodland-1.jpg

woodland-1.jpg

486 ms

bg-environment.png

bg-environment.png

344 ms

arrow-service-panel.png

arrow-service-panel.png

270 ms

bg-built.png

bg-built.png

359 ms

bg-historic.png

bg-historic.png

365 ms

i-twitter.png

i-twitter.png

435 ms

i-linkedin.png

i-linkedin.png

449 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

455 ms

9b3206c0-f87b-45b9-96cf-eae74a16ecea.woff

9b3206c0-f87b-45b9-96cf-eae74a16ecea.woff

104 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

js

js

92 ms

i-camera.png

i-camera.png

423 ms

preload.gif

preload.gif

427 ms

Accessibility Review

placeservices.co.uk accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

placeservices.co.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

placeservices.co.uk SEO score

75

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Placeservices.co.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 Placeservices.co.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

placeservices.co.uk

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