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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% 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

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

consult.education.gov.uk

Department for Education - Citizen Space

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

468 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

99 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Consult.education.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 468 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

consult.education.gov.uk performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

consult.education.gov.uk

468 ms

consult.education.gov.uk

372 ms

opsuite.css

173 ms

jquery.ganttview.css

239 ms

client.css

243 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Consult.education.gov.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (558 ms) belongs to the original domain Consult.education.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 371.2 kB (72%)

Content Size

516.1 kB

After Optimization

144.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Consult.education.gov.uk main page is 516.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 269.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 15.0 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 1.8 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 11.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 11.1 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. Obviously, Consult Education needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 174.5 kB

  • Original 269.9 kB
  • After minification 259.4 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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 174.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 183.7 kB

  • Original 218.5 kB
  • After minification 170.3 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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. Consult.education.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 183.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (71%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Consult Education. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

consult.education.gov.uk

consult.education.gov.uk

468 ms

consult.education.gov.uk

consult.education.gov.uk

372 ms

opsuite.css

opsuite.css

173 ms

jquery.ganttview.css

jquery.ganttview.css

239 ms

client.css

client.css

243 ms

dashboard.css

dashboard.css

245 ms

redaction.css

redaction.css

245 ms

legacy.css

legacy.css

247 ms

client_overrides.css

client_overrides.css

284 ms

concatenated.js

concatenated.js

558 ms

jquery.iframe-post-form.js

jquery.iframe-post-form.js

321 ms

common.js

common.js

321 ms

generic.js

generic.js

322 ms

tile.js

tile.js

324 ms

tile.admin.js

tile.admin.js

365 ms

normalisation.css

normalisation.css

232 ms

qc.css

qc.css

234 ms

jquery_ui.css

jquery_ui.css

239 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

241 ms

dfe-2955-small-online.jpg

dfe-2955-small-online.jpg

85 ms

grad.png

grad.png

88 ms

rss.png

rss.png

87 ms

citizen_space_icon_sm.png

citizen_space_icon_sm.png

81 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

16 ms

print.css

print.css

89 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

Accessibility Review

consult.education.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

consult.education.gov.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

consult.education.gov.uk SEO score

90

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Consult.education.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 Consult.education.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

consult.education.gov.uk

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