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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

north-ayrshire.gov.uk

North Ayrshire Council

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

372 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

273 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed North-ayrshire.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 372 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

north-ayrshire.gov.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.487

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.aspx

372 ms

webchat.js

313 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

436 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

598 ms

jquery.tmpl.min.js

315 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original North-ayrshire.gov.uk, 14% (6 requests) were made to Js.arcgis.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain North-ayrshire.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

804.5 kB

After Optimization

708.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of North-ayrshire.gov.uk main page is 804.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 608.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 9.6 kB, which is 19% 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 30.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 131.0 kB
  • After minification 105.9 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. Obviously, North Ayrshire needs image optimization as it can save up to 25.1 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 38.4 kB

  • Original 608.2 kB
  • After minification 608.2 kB
  • After compression 569.8 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 15.0 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. North-ayrshire.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (48%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Ayrshire. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home.aspx

home.aspx

372 ms

webchat.js

webchat.js

313 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

436 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

598 ms

jquery.tmpl.min.js

jquery.tmpl.min.js

315 ms

details-shim.min.js

details-shim.min.js

315 ms

d3.v4.min.js

d3.v4.min.js

627 ms

nac-css.css

nac-css.css

724 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

731 ms

details-shim.min.css

details-shim.min.css

722 ms

search-gis.js

search-gis.js

888 ms

feedback.js

feedback.js

982 ms

Cookie-Banner.js

Cookie-Banner.js

980 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1165 ms

init.js

init.js

13 ms

79a03865-7313-4fae-a3c3-91a9fa9d218d

79a03865-7313-4fae-a3c3-91a9fa9d218d

576 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

52 ms

js

js

54 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

22 ms

collect

collect

111 ms

js

js

88 ms

jsapi_ROOT.js

jsapi_ROOT.js

76 ms

svg.js

svg.js

53 ms

host.js

host.js

376 ms

filters.js

filters.js

7 ms

svgext.js

svgext.js

4 ms

cross-icon20x20.png

cross-icon20x20.png

235 ms

search-icon-green.gif

search-icon-green.gif

330 ms

cost-of-living-nac-white.png

cost-of-living-nac-white.png

419 ms

CachedImage.axd

CachedImage.axd

510 ms

CachedImage.axd

CachedImage.axd

330 ms

CachedImage.axd

CachedImage.axd

462 ms

CachedImage.axd

CachedImage.axd

512 ms

CachedImage.axd

CachedImage.axd

606 ms

CachedImage.axd

CachedImage.axd

607 ms

x-30.png

x-30.png

698 ms

facebook-30.png

facebook-30.png

733 ms

instagram-30.png

instagram-30.png

784 ms

youtube-30.png

youtube-30.png

788 ms

linkedin-30.png

linkedin-30.png

883 ms

logo-s-coloured-sm.png

logo-s-coloured-sm.png

684 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

18 ms

print-css.css

print-css.css

221 ms

Accessibility Review

north-ayrshire.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

north-ayrshire.gov.uk best practices score

75

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

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

north-ayrshire.gov.uk SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 North-ayrshire.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 North-ayrshire.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

north-ayrshire.gov.uk

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