Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

cicregulator.gov.uk

Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies - GOV.UK

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

519 ms

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About Website

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The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies decides whether an organisation is eligible to become, or continue to be, a community interest company (CIC). It is responsible for investig...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cicregulator.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 73 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

cicregulator.gov.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,040 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.8

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

office-of-the-regulator-of-community-interest-companies

73 ms

govuk-template-78368781f77ad5f036d7f8bada53f0034cbc4b5ddb127d4cf0380702a1f77864.css

76 ms

fonts-5ff8c53913434afd0072a480d7cfca67cace4c8d03f6ef96b78a4455728ce745.css

139 ms

header-footer-only-294d5f0f9be335ce5c6ca307abda2a1f4e8d61ae821c686f276f8c17446da319.css

81 ms

base-42a6d283a6693d4e87faf5e997c1f2677ba2b899a84dfdc3adea75ac298f0b81.css

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cicregulator.gov.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (674 ms) relates to the external source Assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 780.9 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Cicregulator.gov.uk main page is 2.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 902.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 39.5 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 4.4 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 30.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 902.9 kB
  • After minification 885.1 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. Cic Regulator images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 206.0 kB

  • Original 315.1 kB
  • After minification 312.7 kB
  • After compression 109.1 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 206.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 526.5 kB

  • Original 784.7 kB
  • After minification 781.1 kB
  • After compression 258.2 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. Cicregulator.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 526.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (52%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cic Regulator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cicregulator.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

cicregulator.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

cicregulator.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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cicregulator.gov.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Cicregulator.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 Cic Regulator. 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: