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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

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Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

458 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Great.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 3.7 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

great.gov.uk performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

great.gov.uk

26 ms

www.great.gov.uk

369 ms

gtm.js

54 ms

govuk-elements-styles.min.css

255 ms

components_styles.css

259 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Great.gov.uk, 26% (12 requests) were made to Paas-s3-broker-prod-lon-8db94025-3db3-41df-9a2a-fbb251b24433.s3.amazonaws.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Great.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 344.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Great.gov.uk main page is 2.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 64.0 kB

  • Original 76.0 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 16.6 kB, which is 22% 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 64.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 280.4 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Obviously, Great needs image optimization as it can save up to 280.4 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (48%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

great.gov.uk

great.gov.uk

26 ms

www.great.gov.uk

www.great.gov.uk

369 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

54 ms

govuk-elements-styles.min.css

govuk-elements-styles.min.css

255 ms

components_styles.css

components_styles.css

259 ms

loggedout_styles.css

loggedout_styles.css

429 ms

microsite_styles.css

microsite_styles.css

340 ms

sentry.6.19.7.tracing.replay.min.js

sentry.6.19.7.tracing.replay.min.js

411 ms

sentryinit.js

sentryinit.js

1850 ms

details-polyfill.js

details-polyfill.js

354 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

575 ms

dit.js

dit.js

585 ms

components.js

components.js

2005 ms

dit.classes.Modal.js

dit.classes.Modal.js

653 ms

dit.components.video.js

dit.components.video.js

667 ms

home.js

home.js

876 ms

dit.tagging.js

dit.tagging.js

675 ms

dit.responsive.js

dit.responsive.js

899 ms

dit.utils.js

dit.utils.js

1889 ms

common.js

common.js

1383 ms

digital-entry-point.js

digital-entry-point.js

901 ms

css

css

60 ms

css

css

78 ms

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Homepage_card_-_UKEA.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.png

589 ms

homepage-learn-to-export-thumbnail.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.png

homepage-learn-to-export-thumbnail.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.png

658 ms

homepage-where-to-export-thumbnail.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.png

homepage-where-to-export-thumbnail.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.png

669 ms

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Icon-Technology3.original_J11gmiL_qWIv9BQ.original.png

373 ms

Icon_LargeInfrastructure.original.original.png

Icon_LargeInfrastructure.original.original.png

373 ms

Icon-Technology-SmartTransport.original.png

Icon-Technology-SmartTransport.original.png

384 ms

Icon-TechnologyServices.original.original.png

Icon-TechnologyServices.original.original.png

463 ms

Icon-ReneableEnergy.original.png

Icon-ReneableEnergy.original.png

466 ms

Icon-Energy2.original.original.png

Icon-Energy2.original.original.png

478 ms

vat_person-homepage.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.png

vat_person-homepage.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.png

850 ms

FTA-U-page-image-01.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.jpg

FTA-U-page-image-01.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360.jpg

625 ms

advice-sell-services-overseas-head.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360_itV6J1D.png

advice-sell-services-overseas-head.2e16d0ba.fill-640x360_itV6J1D.png

876 ms

DBT_White.svg

DBT_White.svg

112 ms

great-banner-large.png

great-banner-large.png

117 ms

DBT_Red_DIGI.svg

DBT_Red_DIGI.svg

171 ms

search.svg

search.svg

428 ms

hero-product-market-bg-1.png

hero-product-market-bg-1.png

167 ms

hero-product-market-bg-2.png

hero-product-market-bg-2.png

255 ms

NotoSans-Regular.ttf

NotoSans-Regular.ttf

250 ms

NotoSans-SemiBold.ttf

NotoSans-SemiBold.ttf

400 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

673 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

310 ms

font

font

19 ms

Accessibility Review

great.gov.uk accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

great.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

great.gov.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Great.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 Great.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 Great. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: