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democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk

Meetings, agendas and minutes - Modern Council

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

370 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 370 ms and then it took 2.5 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

democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk

370 ms

uuCoverPage.aspx

248 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.2.custom.min.css

375 ms

mg.jqueryaddons.css

306 ms

standard.css

198 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (944 ms) belongs to the original domain Democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 896.2 kB (76%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

286.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk main page is 1.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 938.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 54.4 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. 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 54.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 10.1 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, Democracy Cheltenham needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 699.9 kB

  • Original 938.8 kB
  • After minification 862.2 kB
  • After compression 238.9 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 699.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 139.6 kB

  • Original 166.8 kB
  • After minification 138.1 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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. Democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 139.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (77%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Democracy Cheltenham. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Democracy.cheltenham.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 Democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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