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taxdisc.direct.gov.uk

DVLA's Vehicle online service. | Site/Services Unavailable.

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taxdisc.direct.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 2.6 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Taxdisc.direct.gov.uk rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

taxdisc.direct.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

taxdisc.direct.gov.uk

285 ms

1209 ms

govuk-template-2954d8cb00a2698f94a497816945f0a9.css

124 ms

fonts-83e596ae63d072e22b7f34d2b5482bde.css

139 ms

application-1e743f93721c85f25a7fc70a1c066d74.css

701 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Taxdisc.direct.gov.uk, 78% (14 requests) were made to Assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk and 11% (2 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Taxdisc.direct.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.2 kB (59%)

Content Size

784.0 kB

After Optimization

323.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Taxdisc.direct.gov.uk main page is 784.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 482.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 10.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 266 B

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Taxdisc Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 196.4 kB

  • Original 280.9 kB
  • After minification 280.9 kB
  • After compression 84.5 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 196.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 252.7 kB

  • Original 482.4 kB
  • After minification 480.7 kB
  • After compression 229.7 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. Taxdisc.direct.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 252.7 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (57%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Taxdisc Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

taxdisc.direct.gov.uk SEO score

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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 Taxdisc.direct.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 Taxdisc.direct.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 Taxdisc Direct. 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: