Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

harborough.gov.uk

Harborough District Council Homepage

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

336 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Harborough.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 336 ms and then it took 1.5 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

harborough.gov.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

harborough.gov.uk

336 ms

index.php

178 ms

base.css

91 ms

standard.css

246 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Harborough.gov.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) belongs to the original domain Harborough.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 727.2 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

400.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Harborough.gov.uk main page is 1.1 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. Javascripts take 742.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 112.8 kB

  • Original 144.4 kB
  • After minification 134.4 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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 112.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 94.2 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. Harborough images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 489.8 kB

  • Original 742.9 kB
  • After minification 738.7 kB
  • After compression 253.1 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 489.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 117.9 kB

  • Original 139.0 kB
  • After minification 107.7 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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. Harborough.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (44%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harborough. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

harborough.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

harborough.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

harborough.gov.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Harborough.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 Harborough.gov.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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