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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

rctcbc.gov.uk

Welcome to Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

68 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rctcbc.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 94 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

rctcbc.gov.uk performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.295

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Index.aspx

94 ms

100fonts.css

92 ms

200bootstrap.min.css

268 ms

fontLight.css

278 ms

SplashPage.css

278 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Rctcbc.gov.uk, 10% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (448 ms) belongs to the original domain Rctcbc.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

143.7 kB

After Optimization

134.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rctcbc.gov.uk main page is 143.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 99.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 10.8 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 5.6 kB or 50% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 10.3 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, Rctcbc needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 99.1 kB
  • After compression 98.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 293 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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. Rctcbc.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (75%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

4

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rctcbc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Index.aspx

Index.aspx

94 ms

100fonts.css

100fonts.css

92 ms

200bootstrap.min.css

200bootstrap.min.css

268 ms

fontLight.css

fontLight.css

278 ms

SplashPage.css

SplashPage.css

278 ms

primebox.cookiebar.css

primebox.cookiebar.css

277 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

365 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

353 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

448 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

361 ms

primebox.cookiebar.js

primebox.cookiebar.js

362 ms

zengenti.cookiebar.js

zengenti.cookiebar.js

362 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

69 ms

RCTweblogo.png

RCTweblogo.png

132 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

OpenSansRegularwebfont.woff

OpenSansRegularwebfont.woff

111 ms

OpenSansLightwebfont.woff

OpenSansLightwebfont.woff

177 ms

OpenSansBoldwebfont.woff

OpenSansBoldwebfont.woff

110 ms

collect

collect

66 ms

js

js

45 ms

Accessibility Review

rctcbc.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

rctcbc.gov.uk best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rctcbc.gov.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Rctcbc.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 Rctcbc.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

rctcbc.gov.uk

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