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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

chard.gov.uk

Official Chard Town Council Website - Chard Town Council

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

505 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

169 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Chard content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about chard.gov.uk

This site provides all sorts of information for Chard residents and visitors, including the latest news, events, council business and lots more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chard.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 505 ms and then it took 3.6 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

chard.gov.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.chard.gov.uk

505 ms

autoptimize_54a808647db3373b15f09271326ca419.css

513 ms

dashicons.min.css

130 ms

autoptimize_single_3f2388c21c15fd925916b9660d0d3e52.js

27 ms

jquery.min.js

120 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Chard.gov.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (548 ms) belongs to the original domain Chard.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.5 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chard.gov.uk main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 512.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 105.4 kB

  • Original 128.4 kB
  • After minification 128.4 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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. 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 105.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 512.8 kB
  • After minification 512.8 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. Chard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 470.0 kB
  • After minification 470.0 kB
  • After compression 460.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 267.6 kB
  • After minification 267.6 kB
  • After compression 267.6 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. Chard.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (77%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.chard.gov.uk

www.chard.gov.uk

505 ms

autoptimize_54a808647db3373b15f09271326ca419.css

autoptimize_54a808647db3373b15f09271326ca419.css

513 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

130 ms

autoptimize_single_3f2388c21c15fd925916b9660d0d3e52.js

autoptimize_single_3f2388c21c15fd925916b9660d0d3e52.js

27 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

120 ms

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autoptimize_single_4618421499e5b86cd1436903cbf7fee4.js

139 ms

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autoptimize_single_a92b74d6787afb5e34d749ce45d2eeb2.js

21 ms

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338 ms

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autoptimize_single_f41cefc2017ca8dce2263b6c44409121.js

36 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

47 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

57 ms

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74 ms

n2.min.js

n2.min.js

102 ms

smartslider-frontend.min.js

smartslider-frontend.min.js

118 ms

ss-simple.min.js

ss-simple.min.js

131 ms

w-arrow-image.min.js

w-arrow-image.min.js

132 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

135 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

141 ms

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autoptimize_single_d7212717722e5b5b4d594cdd01c93a96.js

146 ms

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autoptimize_single_993dbaba44db9edb86ac8fe6b4daf5d3.js

145 ms

select2.full.min.js

select2.full.min.js

144 ms

lity.min.js

lity.min.js

242 ms

colorbrightness.min.js

colorbrightness.min.js

154 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

245 ms

swiped-events.min.js

swiped-events.min.js

156 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

165 ms

effect.min.js

effect.min.js

167 ms

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178 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

177 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

286 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

195 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

208 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

220 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

238 ms

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248 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

249 ms

superfish.min.js

superfish.min.js

258 ms

superfish.args.min.js

superfish.args.min.js

246 ms

skip-links.min.js

skip-links.min.js

240 ms

sws-stickyh.min.js

sws-stickyh.min.js

249 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

229 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

218 ms

slider.min.js

slider.min.js

309 ms

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182 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

262 ms

wp-util.min.js

wp-util.min.js

176 ms

backbone.min.js

backbone.min.js

548 ms

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autoptimize_single_8ceff56f71b35150a6db0054f3061878.js

175 ms

Chard-Town-Council-Logo.jpg

Chard-Town-Council-Logo.jpg

175 ms

Cem-2-edit.jpg

Cem-2-edit.jpg

175 ms

Fore-Street.jpeg

Fore-Street.jpeg

192 ms

Statues.jpg

Statues.jpg

114 ms

High-Street.jpeg

High-Street.jpeg

51 ms

View-of-Chard.jpeg

View-of-Chard.jpeg

204 ms

Gateway-Sign.jpg

Gateway-Sign.jpg

51 ms

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Banner-new-somerset-logo-online-300x158.jpg

352 ms

Guildhall-Image.jpg

Guildhall-Image.jpg

174 ms

CTC-electric-van-350x200-1.jpg

CTC-electric-van-350x200-1.jpg

175 ms

local-ga.js

local-ga.js

211 ms

main.js

main.js

16 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

Accessibility Review

chard.gov.uk accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

chard.gov.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chard.gov.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Chard.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 Chard.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

chard.gov.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Chard. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: