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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

leicester.gov.uk

Home - Leicester City Council

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

293 ms

leicester.gov.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Leicester content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about leicester.gov.uk

Leicester City Council is the unitary authority serving the people, communities and businesses of Leicester, the biggest city in the East Midlands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Leicester.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 2.7 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

leicester.gov.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

leicester.gov.uk

264 ms

leicester.gov.uk

1062 ms

gtm.js

48 ms

main.css

273 ms

jquery.min.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Leicester.gov.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Leicester.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 84.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

640.9 kB

After Optimization

556.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Leicester.gov.uk main page is 640.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 450.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 63.1 kB

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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 13.5 kB, which is 13% 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 63.1 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 450.7 kB
  • After minification 435.0 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. Leicester images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 68.8 kB
  • After minification 68.8 kB
  • After compression 64.9 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. Leicester.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (28%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Leicester. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

leicester.gov.uk

leicester.gov.uk

264 ms

leicester.gov.uk

leicester.gov.uk

1062 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

48 ms

main.css

main.css

273 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

305 ms

main.js

main.js

356 ms

wardmap.js

wardmap.js

404 ms

js

js

41 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

20 ms

collect

collect

61 ms

jquery.autocomplete.js

jquery.autocomplete.js

226 ms

app.js

app.js

226 ms

multi-tab-slider.js

multi-tab-slider.js

226 ms

banner.js

banner.js

259 ms

css

css

32 ms

sports-festival3.jpg

sports-festival3.jpg

858 ms

person-opening-an-empty-wallet.jpg

person-opening-an-empty-wallet.jpg

403 ms

tower-block.jpg

tower-block.jpg

403 ms

calculator.jpg

calculator.jpg

402 ms

sandfield-close-primary-school-students.png

sandfield-close-primary-school-students.png

402 ms

card-payments.jpg

card-payments.jpg

402 ms

lady-in-the-office.jpg

lady-in-the-office.jpg

484 ms

pork-pie-library-and-community-centre.jpg

pork-pie-library-and-community-centre.jpg

491 ms

gym-leicester-at-braunstone-leisure-centre.jpg

gym-leicester-at-braunstone-leisure-centre.jpg

495 ms

support_us_01.jpg

support_us_01.jpg

491 ms

orange-bag-and-bin.jpeg

orange-bag-and-bin.jpeg

474 ms

city-mayor-haymarket-bus-stop-panels.jpg

city-mayor-haymarket-bus-stop-panels.jpg

488 ms

dsc_5868.jpg

dsc_5868.jpg

554 ms

elections3.jpeg

elections3.jpeg

575 ms

lady-writing-in-diary.jpg

lady-writing-in-diary.jpg

578 ms

moodboard-05-04-2014_r8_c3.gif

moodboard-05-04-2014_r8_c3.gif

585 ms

aerial-town-hall.jpg

aerial-town-hall.jpg

583 ms

istock_000008567347xsmall.jpg

istock_000008567347xsmall.jpg

589 ms

greyfrairs-conservation-area-draft-map.jpg

greyfrairs-conservation-area-draft-map.jpg

634 ms

city-logo.jpg

city-logo.jpg

665 ms

j2464x1632-75549.jpg

j2464x1632-75549.jpg

671 ms

bookbus-v2.jpg

bookbus-v2.jpg

672 ms

flood-sign.jpg

flood-sign.jpg

677 ms

font

font

20 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

735 ms

waiting.gif

waiting.gif

658 ms

timingcg.min.js

timingcg.min.js

45 ms

print.css

print.css

94 ms

Accessibility Review

leicester.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

leicester.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

leicester.gov.uk SEO score

93

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Leicester.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 Leicester.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

leicester.gov.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Leicester. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: