Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

localauthoritypublishing.co.uk

Local Authority Publishing | Area Guides | Official Guides | Fully Funded

Page Load Speed

14.3 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

11.8 sec

Page Rendered

246 ms

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About Website

Welcome to localauthoritypublishing.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Local Authority Publishing best content right away, or after learning these important things about localauthoritypublishing.co.uk

Local Authority Publishing produces fully-funded official guides, area guides and more, for local authorities, government bodies and independently.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Localauthoritypublishing.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 12 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

localauthoritypublishing.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.localauthoritypublishing.co.uk

2321 ms

848op.css

348 ms

post-2067.css

253 ms

84lrp.css

340 ms

post-115.css

254 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Localauthoritypublishing.co.uk, 24% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Localauthoritypublishing.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Localauthoritypublishing.co.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 484.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 82.7 kB

  • Original 94.8 kB
  • After minification 90.2 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 82.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 108 B

  • Original 484.0 kB
  • After minification 483.9 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. Local Authority Publishing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 342.8 kB
  • After minification 342.8 kB
  • After compression 329.3 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 224.0 kB
  • After minification 224.0 kB
  • After compression 202.6 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. Localauthoritypublishing.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (78%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Local Authority Publishing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

localauthoritypublishing.co.uk accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

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.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

localauthoritypublishing.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

localauthoritypublishing.co.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Localauthoritypublishing.co.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 Localauthoritypublishing.co.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 data is detected on the main page of Local Authority Publishing. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: