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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

touch.nihe.gov.uk

The Housing Executive - Welcome to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive website

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

307 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

182 ms

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About Website

Welcome to touch.nihe.gov.uk homepage info - get ready to check Touch Nihe best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about touch.nihe.gov.uk

This is the website of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. We are the strategic Housing Authority for Northern Ireland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Touch.nihe.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 307 ms and then it took 2.6 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

touch.nihe.gov.uk performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

touch.nihe.gov.uk

307 ms

home

643 ms

Logger.js

272 ms

systemPageComponents.min.css

272 ms

widgets-default.css

799 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Touch.nihe.gov.uk, 76% (25 requests) were made to Nihe.gov.uk and 6% (2 requests) were made to Browsealoud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (838 ms) relates to the external source Nihe.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 753.9 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

563.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Touch.nihe.gov.uk main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 580.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 55.6 kB

  • Original 66.0 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.6 kB, which is 22% 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 55.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 351.6 kB
  • After minification 335.4 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. Touch Nihe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 404.6 kB

  • Original 580.9 kB
  • After minification 579.7 kB
  • After compression 176.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 404.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 277.6 kB

  • Original 318.5 kB
  • After minification 316.1 kB
  • After compression 40.9 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. Touch.nihe.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 277.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (42%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Touch Nihe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

touch.nihe.gov.uk

touch.nihe.gov.uk

307 ms

home

home

643 ms

Logger.js

Logger.js

272 ms

systemPageComponents.min.css

systemPageComponents.min.css

272 ms

widgets-default.css

widgets-default.css

799 ms

home-default.css

home-default.css

838 ms

js

js

55 ms

nodelist-foreach.js

nodelist-foreach.js

336 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

52 ms

jquery-3.5.1.js

jquery-3.5.1.js

696 ms

jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js

jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js

92 ms

systemFormComponents.min.js

systemFormComponents.min.js

450 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

631 ms

home.js

home.js

225 ms

search.js

search.js

491 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

51 ms

element.js

element.js

72 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

48 ms

ba.js

ba.js

44 ms

nihe-logo.svg

nihe-logo.svg

95 ms

Building-Safer-Communities-Together-carousel.jpg

Building-Safer-Communities-Together-carousel.jpg

180 ms

My-Housing-Executive-portal-carousel.jpg

My-Housing-Executive-portal-carousel.jpg

222 ms

tower-blocks-website-carouse-OPT.jpg

tower-blocks-website-carouse-OPT.jpg

93 ms

Community-Involvement-Cohesion-Strategy-2.jpg

Community-Involvement-Cohesion-Strategy-2.jpg

103 ms

Careers-collage-image-tile.jpg

Careers-collage-image-tile.jpg

274 ms

mid-east-antrim-HIP-cover-2024.jpg

mid-east-antrim-HIP-cover-2024.jpg

187 ms

Sunningdale.jpg

Sunningdale.jpg

207 ms

Loughgiel-rural-testing.jpg

Loughgiel-rural-testing.jpg

245 ms

GALLIAGH-FEILE-MAIN-PIC-1119.jpg

GALLIAGH-FEILE-MAIN-PIC-1119.jpg

275 ms

WATERSIDE-SHARED-Scheme-2-1119.jpg

WATERSIDE-SHARED-Scheme-2-1119.jpg

280 ms

Armagh-BBQ-1-1119px.jpg

Armagh-BBQ-1-1119px.jpg

309 ms

promise.min.js

promise.min.js

183 ms

version.json

version.json

3 ms

Accessibility Review

touch.nihe.gov.uk accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

touch.nihe.gov.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

touch.nihe.gov.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Touch.nihe.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 Touch.nihe.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

touch.nihe.gov.uk

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