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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% 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

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

west-norfolk.gov.uk

Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk Homepage

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

328 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

368 ms

west-norfolk.gov.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing West Norfolk content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about west-norfolk.gov.uk

Providing information on planning and development, housing, Council Tax, benefits, bins and recycling, and other services in the borough

Visit west-norfolk.gov.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed West-norfolk.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 328 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

west-norfolk.gov.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

west-norfolk.gov.uk

328 ms

www.west-norfolk.gov.uk

470 ms

orbit.css

91 ms

standard.css

169 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

230 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original West-norfolk.gov.uk, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (527 ms) belongs to the original domain West-norfolk.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of West-norfolk.gov.uk main page is 1.7 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 51.9 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 8.2 kB, which is 16% 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 43.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. West Norfolk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 113.6 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 101.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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. West-norfolk.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (61%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Norfolk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

west-norfolk.gov.uk

west-norfolk.gov.uk

328 ms

www.west-norfolk.gov.uk

www.west-norfolk.gov.uk

470 ms

orbit.css

orbit.css

91 ms

standard.css

standard.css

169 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

standard_widget_styles.css

230 ms

js

js

58 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

335 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

335 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

18 ms

bootstrap-switch.js

bootstrap-switch.js

334 ms

header.css

header.css

415 ms

header.js

header.js

422 ms

header.js

header.js

427 ms

default_widget.php

default_widget.php

419 ms

ToggleSwitch.css

ToggleSwitch.css

418 ms

header.js

header.js

496 ms

header.css

header.css

507 ms

orbit.min.js

orbit.min.js

526 ms

almond.min.js

almond.min.js

525 ms

util.min.js

util.min.js

527 ms

widget.js

widget.js

527 ms

css

css

32 ms

crest-header.svg

crest-header.svg

346 ms

logo-white.svg

logo-white.svg

348 ms

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31 ms

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35 ms

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38 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

325 ms

Sandringham_House_1600x550.jpg

Sandringham_House_1600x550.jpg

290 ms

economic_strategy_survey_advert.jpg

economic_strategy_survey_advert.jpg

211 ms

cost_of_living_banner.png

cost_of_living_banner.png

299 ms

WNW_community_logo_long.jpg

WNW_community_logo_long.jpg

365 ms

armed_forces_403x270.jpg

armed_forces_403x270.jpg

222 ms

front-end.js

front-end.js

169 ms

siteanalyze_456991.js

siteanalyze_456991.js

327 ms

map-markers.svg

map-markers.svg

83 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

19 ms

Accessibility Review

west-norfolk.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

west-norfolk.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

west-norfolk.gov.uk SEO score

91

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

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 West-norfolk.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 West-norfolk.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

west-norfolk.gov.uk

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