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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

education.gov.uk

Department for Education - GOV.UK

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

574 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

571 ms

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About Website

Welcome to education.gov.uk homepage info - get ready to check Education best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about education.gov.uk

The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. DfE...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Education.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 574 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

education.gov.uk performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.615

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Education.gov.uk, 44% (20 requests) were made to Www.gov.uk and 4% (2 requests) were made to Csp-reporter.publishing.service.gov.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Assets.publishing.service.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Education.gov.uk main page is 2.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 141.1 kB

  • Original 162.2 kB
  • After minification 148.0 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 141.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB

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. Education images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 222 B

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 37.9 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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. Education.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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574 ms

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Accessibility Review

education.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

education.gov.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

education.gov.uk SEO score

99

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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