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wales.gov.uk

Home | GOV.WALES

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

334 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wales.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 334 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wales.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

wales.gov.uk

334 ms

splash

626 ms

splash.css

194 ms

analytics.js

21 ms

splash_logo.gif

221 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wales.gov.uk, 78% (7 requests) were made to Gov.wales and 11% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (626 ms) relates to the external source Gov.wales.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.5 kB (60%)

Content Size

55.6 kB

After Optimization

22.1 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Wales.gov.uk main page is 55.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 52.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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 1.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WALES. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

wales.gov.uk

wales.gov.uk

334 ms

splash

splash

626 ms

splash.css

splash.css

194 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

21 ms

splash_logo.gif

splash_logo.gif

221 ms

splash_bg1.jpg

splash_bg1.jpg

416 ms

button_cy.gif

button_cy.gif

168 ms

verticaldivider.gif

verticaldivider.gif

178 ms

button_en.gif

button_en.gif

179 ms

SEO Factors

wales.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 Wales.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 Wales.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

wales.gov.uk

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