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east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Home · East Ayrshire Council

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

369 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed East-ayrshire.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

east-ayrshire.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

east-ayrshire.gov.uk

181 ms

www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk

254 ms

Home.aspx

666 ms

bootstrap.min.css

177 ms

font-awesome.min.css

352 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original East-ayrshire.gov.uk, 14% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (889 ms) belongs to the original domain East-ayrshire.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 217.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

739.7 kB

After Optimization

522.4 kB

In fact, the total size of East-ayrshire.gov.uk main page is 739.7 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. Images take 420.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 45.1 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 5.5 kB, which is 12% 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 35.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 420.9 kB
  • After minification 415.2 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. East Ayrshire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 116.7 kB
  • After minification 110.2 kB
  • After compression 69.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 47.0 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 156.9 kB
  • After minification 156.7 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. East-ayrshire.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 128.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (60%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of East Ayrshire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

east-ayrshire.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 East-ayrshire.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 East-ayrshire.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 East Ayrshire. 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: