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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

ribblevalley.gov.uk

Home Page – Ribble Valley Borough Council

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

358 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

240 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ribblevalley.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 358 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ribblevalley.gov.uk performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.068

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ribblevalley.gov.uk

358 ms

www.ribblevalley.gov.uk

636 ms

css2

42 ms

orbit.css

174 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

258 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Ribblevalley.gov.uk, 11% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (851 ms) belongs to the original domain Ribblevalley.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

973.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ribblevalley.gov.uk main page is 1.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 729.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.9 kB, which is 23% 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 39.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 35 B

  • Original 729.6 kB
  • After minification 729.6 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. Ribble Valley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 67 B

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 102.2 kB
  • After compression 102.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 221 B

  • Original 134.6 kB
  • After minification 134.6 kB
  • After compression 134.4 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. Ribblevalley.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (45%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ribble Valley. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ribblevalley.gov.uk

ribblevalley.gov.uk

358 ms

www.ribblevalley.gov.uk

www.ribblevalley.gov.uk

636 ms

css2

css2

42 ms

orbit.css

orbit.css

174 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

standard_widget_styles.css

258 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

262 ms

js

js

71 ms

swfobject.min.js

swfobject.min.js

330 ms

icons.data.svg.css

icons.data.svg.css

568 ms

icons.data.svg.css

icons.data.svg.css

338 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

orbit.js

orbit.js

460 ms

almond.min.js

almond.min.js

376 ms

util.min.js

util.min.js

375 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

77 ms

site-logo.png

site-logo.png

351 ms

site-logo-mobile.png

site-logo-mobile.png

351 ms

site-logo-reversed.svg

site-logo-reversed.svg

851 ms

Castle_Street_Closed.jpg

Castle_Street_Closed.jpg

428 ms

Float_to_live.jpg

Float_to_live.jpg

349 ms

Salthill_Play_Area.jpg

Salthill_Play_Area.jpg

350 ms

Council_Tax_Online.jpg

Council_Tax_Online.jpg

427 ms

Clitheroe_Castle_Right_Advert.jpg

Clitheroe_Castle_Right_Advert.jpg

431 ms

Platform_Gallery_Right_Advert.jpg

Platform_Gallery_Right_Advert.jpg

431 ms

Pool_Right_Advert.jpg

Pool_Right_Advert.jpg

425 ms

js

js

59 ms

js

js

108 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

101 ms

font

font

81 ms

font

font

82 ms

collect

collect

183 ms

site-logo.svg

site-logo.svg

360 ms

site-logo-mobile.svg

site-logo-mobile.svg

396 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

74 ms

Accessibility Review

ribblevalley.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ribblevalley.gov.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

ribblevalley.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 Ribblevalley.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 Ribblevalley.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

ribblevalley.gov.uk

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