Access harlow.gov.uk. Welcome to Harlow Council

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.381

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

69/100

10%

harlow.gov.uk

342 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Harlow.gov.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (342 ms) belongs to the original domain Harlow.gov.uk.

Content Size

140 B

After Optimization

116 B

In fact, the total size of Harlow.gov.uk main page is 140 B. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 140 B which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 24 B

Original 140 B
After minification 140 B
After compression 116 B

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 24 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links are not crawlable

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Harlow.gov.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Harlow.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

harlow.gov.uk

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