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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 90% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

rossendale.gov.uk

Rossendale Borough Council Main Homepage – Rossendale Borough Council

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

920 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

271 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rossendale.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 920 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rossendale.gov.uk performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rossendale.gov.uk

920 ms

homepages.css

175 ms

standard.css

177 ms

standardWidgetStyles.css

177 ms

swfobject.js

334 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Rossendale.gov.uk, 19% (8 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Rossendale.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.1 kB (22%)

Content Size

610.0 kB

After Optimization

472.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rossendale.gov.uk main page is 610.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 435.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 22.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 435.7 kB
  • After minification 420.0 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. Rossendale images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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 48.3 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 62.6 kB
  • After minification 56.2 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. Rossendale.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (43%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rossendale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rossendale.gov.uk

rossendale.gov.uk

920 ms

homepages.css

homepages.css

175 ms

standard.css

standard.css

177 ms

standardWidgetStyles.css

standardWidgetStyles.css

177 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

334 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

61 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

71 ms

jsservices.js

jsservices.js

336 ms

effects.js

effects.js

389 ms

pluit-carousel.js

pluit-carousel.js

894 ms

base.css

base.css

93 ms

forms.css

forms.css

94 ms

editor.css

editor.css

90 ms

builder.js

builder.js

10 ms

effects.js

effects.js

20 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

28 ms

controls.js

controls.js

36 ms

slider.js

slider.js

43 ms

sound.js

sound.js

43 ms

print.css

print.css

115 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

44 ms

mast-bg.jpg

mast-bg.jpg

89 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

265 ms

icon_plus.gif

icon_plus.gif

884 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

94 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

95 ms

BacupTHI.gif

BacupTHI.gif

305 ms

bankstreetbanner.jpg

bankstreetbanner.jpg

310 ms

2_2_1.jpg

2_2_1.jpg

2393 ms

home.png

home.png

185 ms

sterling_pound_currency_sign.png

sterling_pound_currency_sign.png

181 ms

news.png

news.png

271 ms

trash.png

trash.png

276 ms

users.png

users.png

360 ms

attachment.png

attachment.png

364 ms

press.png

press.png

393 ms

IER_Transitional.jpg

IER_Transitional.jpg

400 ms

rosso.png

rosso.png

448 ms

xml.gif

xml.gif

453 ms

fb.png

fb.png

482 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

490 ms

footerMap.gif

footerMap.gif

100 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

Accessibility Review

rossendale.gov.uk accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

rossendale.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

rossendale.gov.uk SEO score

97

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 Rossendale.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 Rossendale.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

rossendale.gov.uk

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