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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

hull.gov.uk

Home – Hull

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

445 ms

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About Website

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

Welcome to Hull City Councils website. Here you can get involved and help shape your city and council services, and help influence decisions made on local issues that matter to you.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hull.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hull.gov.uk performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.086

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hull.gov.uk

241 ms

hull.gov.uk

311 ms

www.hull.gov.uk

652 ms

standard.css

79 ms

cludo-search.min.css

422 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Hull.gov.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Content.govdelivery.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Customer.cludo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) relates to the external source Chatbot-platform.prod.inform360.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hull.gov.uk main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 819.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 85.7 kB
  • After minification 73.7 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 12.1 kB, which is 14% 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 67.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 26.0 kB

  • Original 819.7 kB
  • After minification 793.7 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. Hull images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 320.6 kB
  • After minification 320.5 kB
  • After compression 287.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 395 B

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 58.8 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. Hull.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (41%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hull. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hull.gov.uk

hull.gov.uk

241 ms

hull.gov.uk

hull.gov.uk

311 ms

www.hull.gov.uk

www.hull.gov.uk

652 ms

standard.css

standard.css

79 ms

cludo-search.min.css

cludo-search.min.css

422 ms

orbit.css

orbit.css

166 ms

hullcc.css

hullcc.css

233 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

235 ms

script.outbound-links.tagged-events.file-downloads.js

script.outbound-links.tagged-events.file-downloads.js

120 ms

cdn.min.js

cdn.min.js

40 ms

hcc-bin-collection.js

hcc-bin-collection.js

234 ms

icons.data.svg.css

icons.data.svg.css

234 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

29 ms

gm_sidebar.js

gm_sidebar.js

308 ms

2630

2630

320 ms

recite-me.js

recite-me.js

243 ms

orbit.js

orbit.js

316 ms

almond.min.js

almond.min.js

311 ms

util.min.js

util.min.js

311 ms

search-script.js

search-script.js

458 ms

loader.js

loader.js

707 ms

14521.js

14521.js

50 ms

widget.js

widget.js

311 ms

site-logo.png

site-logo.png

285 ms

site-logo-reversed.svg

site-logo-reversed.svg

273 ms

bridge_and_marina_image_hull_city_centre_2166x800.jpeg

bridge_and_marina_image_hull_city_centre_2166x800.jpeg

286 ms

bins-recycling.png

bins-recycling.png

274 ms

benefits.png

benefits.png

274 ms

health-and-wellbeing.png

health-and-wellbeing.png

272 ms

housing.png

housing.png

274 ms

council-tax.png

council-tax.png

275 ms

people-communities.png

people-communities.png

276 ms

your-council.png

your-council.png

276 ms

info.png

info.png

276 ms

environment-landscape.png

environment-landscape.png

285 ms

parking-transport-roads.png

parking-transport-roads.png

285 ms

planning-building.png

planning-building.png

285 ms

business.png

business.png

285 ms

leisure-culture.png

leisure-culture.png

285 ms

love_your_neighbourhood.JPG

love_your_neighbourhood.JPG

368 ms

20220326_172555_777x437.jpg

20220326_172555_777x437.jpg

370 ms

SummerActivies400x300.jpg

SummerActivies400x300.jpg

368 ms

Prevent_Image.PNG

Prevent_Image.PNG

432 ms

smiley-dark-green.svg

smiley-dark-green.svg

367 ms

smiley-orange.svg

smiley-orange.svg

369 ms

smiley-dark-red.svg

smiley-dark-red.svg

436 ms

gm_intro.js

gm_intro.js

218 ms

hcc_original.png

hcc_original.png

97 ms

css

css

95 ms

site-logo.svg

site-logo.svg

169 ms

poiu1_original.png

poiu1_original.png

137 ms

check-button-original_original.png

check-button-original_original.png

58 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVc.ttf

19 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgshZ1x4gaVc.ttf

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgshZ1x4gaVc.ttf

34 ms

Accessibility Review

hull.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hull.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

SEO Factors

hull.gov.uk SEO score

98

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 Hull.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 Hull.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

hull.gov.uk

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