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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

wigan.gov.uk

Wigan Council - Residents

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wigan.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wigan.gov.uk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wigan.gov.uk

345 ms

index.aspx

2080 ms

100-styles.css

458 ms

WebResource.axd

277 ms

jqs5yvu.js

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Wigan.gov.uk, 15% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Wigan.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 515.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

770.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wigan.gov.uk main page is 1.3 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 621.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 63.4 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.1 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 56.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 621.6 kB
  • After minification 584.8 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. Wigan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 237.5 kB

  • Original 378.2 kB
  • After minification 334.0 kB
  • After compression 140.7 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 237.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 184.6 kB

  • Original 214.5 kB
  • After minification 151.0 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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. Wigan.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 184.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (67%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wigan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wigan.gov.uk

wigan.gov.uk

345 ms

index.aspx

index.aspx

2080 ms

100-styles.css

100-styles.css

458 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

277 ms

jqs5yvu.js

jqs5yvu.js

139 ms

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200-modernizr-253-min.js

279 ms

200-selectivizr-min.js

200-selectivizr-min.js

189 ms

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100-jquery-172-min.js

467 ms

300-helper.js

300-helper.js

282 ms

300-script.js

300-script.js

366 ms

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400-jquerymegamenu.js

370 ms

400-jqueryhoverIntent-min.js

400-jqueryhoverIntent-min.js

372 ms

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500-respond-min.js

463 ms

500-retina-min.js

500-retina-min.js

464 ms

600-uicore.js

600-uicore.js

464 ms

600-uitabs.js

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490 ms

600-uitabs-services.js

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543 ms

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700-jquery-royalslider-min.js

637 ms

700-royalinit.js

700-royalinit.js

550 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

461 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

646 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

498 ms

engage.js

engage.js

264 ms

gm_sidebar.js

gm_sidebar.js

410 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

450 ms

800-icomoon.css

800-icomoon.css

278 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

99 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

bg-body-stripes.png

bg-body-stripes.png

100 ms

liveimage.jpg

liveimage.jpg

100 ms

TheDeal.jpg

TheDeal.jpg

378 ms

Latics-tickets.jpg

Latics-tickets.jpg

417 ms

myaccount-steps.jpg

myaccount-steps.jpg

239 ms

good.png

good.png

239 ms

average.png

average.png

185 ms

poor.png

poor.png

238 ms

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183 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

bg-accessibility.png

bg-accessibility.png

106 ms

council-logo-white.png

council-logo-white.png

93 ms

mag.gif

mag.gif

104 ms

bg-sub.gif

bg-sub.gif

142 ms

bg-noise-ftr@2x.png

bg-noise-ftr@2x.png

184 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

192 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

212 ms

icon-youtube.png

icon-youtube.png

238 ms

icon-instagram.png

icon-instagram.png

237 ms

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DBURL.php

240 ms

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icomoon.woff

319 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

82 ms

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siteanalyze_492634.js

276 ms

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gm_intro.js

104 ms

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blt-rht.png

101 ms

rs-default.png

rs-default.png

94 ms

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icomoon.ttf

272 ms

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image.aspx

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104 ms

Accessibility Review

wigan.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

wigan.gov.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

wigan.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 Wigan.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 Wigan.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

wigan.gov.uk

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