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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

debt-clock.org

Past: Debt clock national tour

Page Load Speed

962 ms in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

685 ms

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

Welcome to debt-clock.org homepage info - get ready to check Debt Clock best content right away, or after learning these important things about debt-clock.org

The national debt is the total amount of money the UK Government currently owes. This is different to the deficit, which is the amount of money spent in excess of income. Each year we run a deficit, t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Debt-clock.org page load time and found that the first response time was 128 ms and then it took 834 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

debt-clock.org performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

debt-clock.org

128 ms

bootstrap.min.css

14 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

10 ms

debtclock.css

6 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Debt-clock.org, 34% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (269 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.3 kB (54%)

Content Size

341.8 kB

After Optimization

157.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Debt-clock.org main page is 341.8 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. CSS take 115.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 2.6 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 18.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 97.0 kB
  • After minification 94.7 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. Debt Clock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 68.2 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 106.1 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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 68.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 95.5 kB

  • Original 115.0 kB
  • After minification 114.5 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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. Debt-clock.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (65%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Debt Clock. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

debt-clock.org

debt-clock.org

128 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

14 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

bootstrap-theme.min.css

10 ms

debtclock.css

debtclock.css

6 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

11 ms

icw3mcw.js

icw3mcw.js

162 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

34 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

31 ms

jquery.formatNumber-0.1.1.min.js

jquery.formatNumber-0.1.1.min.js

9 ms

jquery.backstretch.min.js

jquery.backstretch.min.js

9 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

31 ms

main.js

main.js

30 ms

aa

aa

91 ms

p.gif

p.gif

79 ms

all.js

all.js

269 ms

logo-corner-2.png

logo-corner-2.png

18 ms

tpa-logo-white.png

tpa-logo-white.png

18 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

137 ms

bg_banknotes.jpg

bg_banknotes.jpg

12 ms

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108 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

17 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

Accessibility Review

debt-clock.org accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

debt-clock.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

debt-clock.org SEO score

71

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Debt-clock.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Debt-clock.org 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

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