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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

swindon.gov.uk

Swindon Borough Council

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

367 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Swindon.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

swindon.gov.uk performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

swindon.gov.uk

246 ms

www.swindon.gov.uk

586 ms

icons.css

83 ms

orbit.css

244 ms

standard.css

232 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Swindon.gov.uk, 18% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 15% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (964 ms) relates to the external source Syndication.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.3 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Swindon.gov.uk main page is 1.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 44.4 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 5.5 kB, which is 11% 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 38.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Swindon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 161.0 kB
  • After minification 161.0 kB
  • After compression 158.1 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 41.4 kB
  • After minification 41.4 kB
  • After compression 38.6 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. Swindon.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (68%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Swindon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

swindon.gov.uk

swindon.gov.uk

246 ms

www.swindon.gov.uk

www.swindon.gov.uk

586 ms

icons.css

icons.css

83 ms

orbit.css

orbit.css

244 ms

standard.css

standard.css

232 ms

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standard_widget_styles.css

230 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

57 ms

slick.css

slick.css

42 ms

css

css

49 ms

js

js

50 ms

js

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92 ms

js

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89 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

232 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

235 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

99 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

41 ms

orbit.min.js

orbit.min.js

237 ms

almond.min.js

almond.min.js

453 ms

util.min.js

util.min.js

452 ms

widget.js

widget.js

452 ms

site.js

site.js

452 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

53 ms

css

css

17 ms

siteanalyze_465752.js

siteanalyze_465752.js

360 ms

universal.js

universal.js

294 ms

carousel_reablement_2.jpg

carousel_reablement_2.jpg

658 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

199 ms

Be_the_Change___Internet_Carousel_2.png

Be_the_Change___Internet_Carousel_2.png

650 ms

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working_for_swindon_banner_v2.jpg

355 ms

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PCC_declaration_2024.jpg

521 ms

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Declaration_pic.jpg

376 ms

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foster_football_match.jpeg

371 ms

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273 ms

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carriage_works_exterior.jpg

515 ms

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107 ms

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116 ms

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103 ms

FosteringFriendlyLogo.png

FosteringFriendlyLogo.png

166 ms

universal.css

universal.css

71 ms

settings

settings

95 ms

s2f8b3a0v6_popups.js

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231 ms

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21 ms

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964 ms

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22 ms

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84 ms

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85 ms

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87 ms

Accessibility Review

swindon.gov.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

swindon.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

swindon.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 Swindon.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 Swindon.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

swindon.gov.uk

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