Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

southtyneside.gov.uk

Home - South Tyneside Council

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

432 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

251 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southtyneside.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 432 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southtyneside.gov.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southtyneside.gov.uk

432 ms

www.southtyneside.gov.uk

2982 ms

style.css

942 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

542 ms

home.css

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Southtyneside.gov.uk, 11% (7 requests) were made to 40515350444d1369ff68-2f7735d5ad283fa41a203a082d9a8f25.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southtyneside.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 471.1 kB (52%)

Content Size

905.7 kB

After Optimization

434.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Southtyneside.gov.uk main page is 905.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 367.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 65.5 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 17.0 kB, which is 21% 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 65.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 89.0 kB

  • Original 367.8 kB
  • After minification 278.9 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, South Tyneside needs image optimization as it can save up to 89.0 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 204.4 kB

  • Original 324.2 kB
  • After minification 285.8 kB
  • After compression 119.8 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 204.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 134.5 kB
  • After minification 112.1 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Southtyneside.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (54%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Tyneside. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

southtyneside.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

SEO Factors

southtyneside.gov.uk SEO score

85

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 Southtyneside.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 Southtyneside.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

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