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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

oldham.gov.uk

Main Homepage

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

177 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oldham.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oldham.gov.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,530 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oldham.gov.uk

164 ms

www.oldham.gov.uk

420 ms

orbit.css

91 ms

standard.css

176 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

228 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Oldham.gov.uk, 16% (8 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (423 ms) relates to the external source Static.hotjar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 338.8 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

678.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Oldham.gov.uk main page is 1.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 566.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 59.1 kB
  • After minification 46.1 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 13.0 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 49.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 189.0 kB

  • Original 566.8 kB
  • After minification 377.8 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, Oldham needs image optimization as it can save up to 189.0 kB or 33% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 328.1 kB
  • After minification 328.1 kB
  • After compression 229.4 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 98.7 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 63.1 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. Oldham.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (76%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oldham. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

oldham.gov.uk

oldham.gov.uk

164 ms

www.oldham.gov.uk

www.oldham.gov.uk

420 ms

orbit.css

orbit.css

91 ms

standard.css

standard.css

176 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

standard_widget_styles.css

228 ms

uc.js

uc.js

28 ms

klaviyo.js

klaviyo.js

32 ms

ba.js

ba.js

34 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

240 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

240 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

orbit.js

orbit.js

239 ms

almond.min.js

almond.min.js

351 ms

util.min.js

util.min.js

351 ms

widget.js

widget.js

352 ms

js

js

62 ms

css

css

32 ms

css2

css2

20 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

256 ms

hotjar-3607282.js

hotjar-3607282.js

423 ms

version.json

version.json

118 ms

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328 ms

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330 ms

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116 ms

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251 ms

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252 ms

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253 ms

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326 ms

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251 ms

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signup_forms.3c339f68eee3e750afea.js

252 ms

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Web_logo_reversed_png.png

290 ms

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290 ms

election_results.png

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290 ms

Family_Hubs_web_banner_2.jpg

Family_Hubs_web_banner_2.jpg

328 ms

woo_homepage_widget_1.png

woo_homepage_widget_1.png

293 ms

Donate_IT__1.jpg

Donate_IT__1.jpg

289 ms

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278 ms

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327 ms

www.oldham.gov.uk.js

www.oldham.gov.uk.js

219 ms

js

js

105 ms

js

js

103 ms

sri.json

sri.json

6 ms

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21 ms

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88 ms

browsealoud.js

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9 ms

Accessibility Review

oldham.gov.uk accessibility score

97

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

oldham.gov.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

oldham.gov.uk SEO score

97

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

    UTF-8

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

oldham.gov.uk

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