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dudley.gov.uk

Residents | Dudley Council

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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About Website

Visit dudley.gov.uk now to see the best up-to-date Dudley content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dudley.gov.uk

We provide lots of services to residents within the Dudley Borough, including: planning, Council Tax, bins and recycling, housing, parking and roads, safeguarding, among many others.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dudley.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dudley.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

dudley.gov.uk

1051 ms

www.dudley.gov.uk

1886 ms

ui.css

442 ms

RenderEngine_Global.css

349 ms

RenderEngine.css

431 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Dudley.gov.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Uk1.siteimprove.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Dudley.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 600.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dudley.gov.uk main page is 1.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 968.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 75.2 kB

  • Original 90.9 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 11.0 kB, which is 12% 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 75.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 968.1 kB
  • After minification 912.3 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. Dudley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 201.2 kB

  • Original 301.9 kB
  • After minification 301.6 kB
  • After compression 100.8 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 201.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 268.4 kB

  • Original 307.6 kB
  • After minification 208.8 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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. Dudley.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 268.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (49%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dudley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dudley.gov.uk

dudley.gov.uk

1051 ms

www.dudley.gov.uk

www.dudley.gov.uk

1886 ms

ui.css

ui.css

442 ms

RenderEngine_Global.css

RenderEngine_Global.css

349 ms

RenderEngine.css

RenderEngine.css

431 ms

RenderEngine_PageFooter.css

RenderEngine_PageFooter.css

176 ms

RenderEngine_DocumentNavigation.css

RenderEngine_DocumentNavigation.css

264 ms

ContentFormats.css

ContentFormats.css

261 ms

ContentEditor.css

ContentEditor.css

352 ms

EasySite_PCIE70.css

EasySite_PCIE70.css

353 ms

custom.css

custom.css

603 ms

JavaScriptHandler.ashx

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434 ms

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

743 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.21.custom.min.js

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817 ms

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608 ms

RenderEngine_ScrollPosHelper.js

RenderEngine_ScrollPosHelper.js

614 ms

generics.css

generics.css

345 ms

forms.css

forms.css

351 ms

grids.css

grids.css

352 ms

lists.css

lists.css

359 ms

promotion.css

promotion.css

433 ms

panels.css

panels.css

435 ms

apps.css

apps.css

437 ms

console_temp.css

console_temp.css

444 ms

console.css

console.css

484 ms

RenderEngine_SetScrollPos.js

RenderEngine_SetScrollPos.js

496 ms

common_custom.css

common_custom.css

436 ms

logo_dudley_original_trans.gif

logo_dudley_original_trans.gif

107 ms

common_custom.css

common_custom.css

274 ms

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search_icon_black.gif

106 ms

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107 ms

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list-arrow.png

list-arrow.png

1316 ms

getresource.axd

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1352 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

1380 ms

youtube.gif

youtube.gif

1381 ms

flickr.gif

flickr.gif

1403 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

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1472 ms

itunes_tb.gif

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1471 ms

icon_phone_dmbc.gif

icon_phone_dmbc.gif

1496 ms

icon_email_dmbc.gif

icon_email_dmbc.gif

1539 ms

InformationIcon.gif

InformationIcon.gif

1580 ms

siteanalyze_384119.js

siteanalyze_384119.js

160 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

35 ms

disclaimer2.gif

disclaimer2.gif

1543 ms

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11 ms

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63 ms

contactoptions.gif

contactoptions.gif

1535 ms

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1562 ms

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1519 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

90 ms

SEO Factors

dudley.gov.uk SEO score

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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 Dudley.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 Dudley.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

dudley.gov.uk

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