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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

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Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

203 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 264 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

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.226

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

264 ms

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

445 ms

app.css

357 ms

jquery.loadmask.css

261 ms

ui.all.css

260 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

539.9 kB

After Optimization

485.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk main page is 539.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 313.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 34.8 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 12.3 kB, which is 35% 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 28.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 313.1 kB
  • After minification 303.2 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. DVLA Registrations images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 155.0 kB
  • After minification 154.5 kB
  • After compression 141.9 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 36.3 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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. Dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (58%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DVLA Registrations. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

264 ms

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

445 ms

app.css

app.css

357 ms

jquery.loadmask.css

jquery.loadmask.css

261 ms

ui.all.css

ui.all.css

260 ms

tiny-slider.css

tiny-slider.css

24 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

437 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

261 ms

jquery.tools.js

jquery.tools.js

261 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

520 ms

jquery.newsticker.pack.js

jquery.newsticker.pack.js

519 ms

jquery.countdown.js

jquery.countdown.js

520 ms

jquery.loadmask.js

jquery.loadmask.js

520 ms

jquery.platePicker.js

jquery.platePicker.js

614 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js

879 ms

IE-font-replacement.js

IE-font-replacement.js

777 ms

library.js

library.js

781 ms

dvlaCookies.js

dvlaCookies.js

779 ms

onready.js

onready.js

778 ms

mini-auction.css

mini-auction.css

871 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

1213 ms

design_ui.js

design_ui.js

1039 ms

tiny-slider.js

tiny-slider.js

24 ms

ui.base.css

ui.base.css

780 ms

ui.theme.css

ui.theme.css

783 ms

ui.core.css

ui.core.css

93 ms

ui.resizable.css

ui.resizable.css

99 ms

ui.accordion.css

ui.accordion.css

260 ms

ui.autocomplete.css

ui.autocomplete.css

261 ms

ui.button.css

ui.button.css

261 ms

ui.dialog.css

ui.dialog.css

351 ms

ui.datepicker.css

ui.datepicker.css

357 ms

ui.progressbar.css

ui.progressbar.css

434 ms

ui.slider.css

ui.slider.css

518 ms

ui.tabs.css

ui.tabs.css

518 ms

DVLA_logo2018.png

DVLA_logo2018.png

266 ms

icon-heart.svg

icon-heart.svg

262 ms

en_dateless.jpg

en_dateless.jpg

432 ms

en_new_series.jpg

en_new_series.jpg

346 ms

en_new_prefix_series.jpg

en_new_prefix_series.jpg

517 ms

en_request_registration.jpg

en_request_registration.jpg

346 ms

en_prices_from_250.jpg

en_prices_from_250.jpg

603 ms

en-follow_us-2023.jpg

en-follow_us-2023.jpg

608 ms

dateless.jpg

dateless.jpg

605 ms

new-series.jpg

new-series.jpg

605 ms

new-prefix-series.jpg

new-prefix-series.jpg

689 ms

request-registration.jpg

request-registration.jpg

775 ms

prices-from.jpg

prices-from.jpg

861 ms

social-media.jpg

social-media.jpg

863 ms

Auction180622-banner-660x310.jpg

Auction180622-banner-660x310.jpg

1035 ms

icon-twitter.svg

icon-twitter.svg

866 ms

icon-facebook.svg

icon-facebook.svg

947 ms

icon-instagram.svg

icon-instagram.svg

1033 ms

dvlavrm-webfont.woff

dvlavrm-webfont.woff

1106 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

1098 ms

Accessibility Review

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

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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 Dvlaregistrations.dvla.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 Dvlaregistrations.dvla.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

dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk

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