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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk

Book your driving test - GOV.UK

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

217 ms

Resources Loaded

632 ms

Page Rendered

392 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 217 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.578

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

book-driving-test

217 ms

lux-measurer-505eef3e243b1d08ea7c4b945ebe1ae146d896db61366e415b30cc1bcd84cbdc.js

10 ms

rum-loader-c53469dcb841d7b228c914a2e8bdcf3b831a578adf7d4f21cf9da5b85df7381e.js

9 ms

application-4d0a30e4ea17a02c4ff0e896efebbf3cf3eedb16204f9a9111fb075418950d6c.css

13 ms

application-821ddae6ab6f529f03b381944ed4b0465a479193e0e5f1885c585fcdedefe0a8.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (217 ms) relates to the external source Www.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.9 kB (55%)

Content Size

151.5 kB

After Optimization

67.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk main page is 151.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 94.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 79.5 kB

  • Original 94.5 kB
  • After minification 84.1 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 10.4 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 79.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Driverpractical Test Direct images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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. Driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (67%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Driverpractical Test 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

driverpracticaltest.direct.gov.uk SEO score

98

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 Driverpracticaltest.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 Driverpracticaltest.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 data is detected on the main page of Driverpractical Test Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: