Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

planning.northdevon.gov.uk

Basic Search - Council Services

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

913 ms

Page Rendered

124 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Planning.northdevon.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

planning.northdevon.gov.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

planning.northdevon.gov.uk

346 ms

welcome.asp

193 ms

styles.css

172 ms

nddc-global.css

438 ms

top_logo.gif

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Planning.northdevon.gov.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (438 ms) belongs to the original domain Planning.northdevon.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.0 kB (84%)

Content Size

44.1 kB

After Optimization

7.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Planning.northdevon.gov.uk main page is 44.1 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 36.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 8.1 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 5.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. Planning.northdevon.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Planning Northdevon. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

planning.northdevon.gov.uk accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

planning.northdevon.gov.uk best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

planning.northdevon.gov.uk SEO score

96

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Planning.northdevon.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 Planning.northdevon.gov.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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