Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

righttobuy.gov.uk

Own Your Home | Right to Buy Scheme - Own Your Home

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

493 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

446 ms

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About Website

Welcome to righttobuy.gov.uk homepage info - get ready to check Right To Buy best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about righttobuy.gov.uk

The Right to Buy scheme helps eligible council and housing association tenants in England to buy their home with a discount of up to £112,800.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Righttobuy.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 493 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

righttobuy.gov.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,120 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

righttobuy.gov.uk

493 ms

1036 ms

style.min.css

33 ms

styles.css

190 ms

tiny-slider.css

612 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 Righttobuy.gov.uk, 52% (17 requests) were made to Ownyourhome.gov.uk and 18% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Ownyourhome.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 383.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Righttobuy.gov.uk main page is 3.2 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 44.8 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 36.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

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. Right To Buy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 92.0 kB
  • After minification 92.0 kB
  • After compression 65.4 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 26.5 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 311.8 kB

  • Original 380.8 kB
  • After minification 380.6 kB
  • After compression 69.0 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. Righttobuy.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 311.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (62%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Right To Buy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

righttobuy.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

righttobuy.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

righttobuy.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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Righttobuy.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 Righttobuy.gov.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 data is detected on the main page of Right To Buy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: