Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

kettering.gov.uk

NNC - Kettering Area

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

122 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kettering.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kettering.gov.uk performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kettering.gov.uk

320 ms

www.kettering.gov.uk

488 ms

orbit.css

160 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

232 ms

swfobject.js

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Kettering.gov.uk, 11% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (488 ms) belongs to the original domain Kettering.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

554.8 kB

After Optimization

515.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Kettering.gov.uk main page is 554.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 397.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 27.5 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 3.9 kB, which is 12% 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 22.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 397.9 kB
  • After minification 382.3 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. Kettering images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 143 B

  • Original 89.8 kB
  • After minification 89.8 kB
  • After compression 89.6 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 381 B

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 35.4 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. Kettering.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (69%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kettering. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kettering.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

kettering.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

kettering.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 Kettering.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 Kettering.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

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