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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

ruralalert.co.uk

Rural Alert Community Messaging :: Video

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

448 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

126 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Rural Alert content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ruralalert.co.uk

Rural Alert is a rural community messaging facility used by Police, Neighbourhood Watch, Crimestoppers, fire & rescue services and local authorities to communicate with farmers and other members of th...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ruralalert.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 448 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ruralalert.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ruralalert.co.uk

448 ms

www.ruralalert.co.uk

831 ms

reset.css

181 ms

Main.css

357 ms

nha_twitter.css

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Ruralalert.co.uk, 10% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (831 ms) belongs to the original domain Ruralalert.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 413.4 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ruralalert.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 90.4 kB

  • Original 109.4 kB
  • After minification 104.0 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 90.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Rural Alert images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 249.0 kB

  • Original 375.4 kB
  • After minification 340.8 kB
  • After compression 126.4 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 249.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 56.6 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. Ruralalert.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (41%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rural Alert. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ruralalert.co.uk

ruralalert.co.uk

448 ms

www.ruralalert.co.uk

www.ruralalert.co.uk

831 ms

reset.css

reset.css

181 ms

Main.css

Main.css

357 ms

nha_twitter.css

nha_twitter.css

168 ms

TabbedAlerts.css

TabbedAlerts.css

179 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

38 ms

MapHighlighterSlideshow.js

MapHighlighterSlideshow.js

288 ms

ga.js

ga.js

264 ms

jquery.timeago.js

jquery.timeago.js

297 ms

jquery.metadata.js

jquery.metadata.js

296 ms

jquery.maphilight.min.js

jquery.maphilight.min.js

326 ms

global.js

global.js

370 ms

jquery.dotdotdot.min.js

jquery.dotdotdot.min.js

400 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

702 ms

loading.js

loading.js

403 ms

custom.js

custom.js

446 ms

NASliderV1.js

NASliderV1.js

452 ms

NAEventWidgetV1.js

NAEventWidgetV1.js

450 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

26 ms

MessageIconSize.js

MessageIconSize.js

613 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

cot.js

cot.js

133 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

3 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

3 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

3 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

cot.js

cot.js

48 ms

Logo.jpg

Logo.jpg

103 ms

uk-map.png

uk-map.png

108 ms

DorsetAlert.jpg

DorsetAlert.jpg

199 ms

Lancashire.png

Lancashire.png

348 ms

Hampshire.jpg

Hampshire.jpg

361 ms

Cleveland.jpg

Cleveland.jpg

356 ms

Wiltshire.jpg

Wiltshire.jpg

319 ms

RuralScot.jpg

RuralScot.jpg

216 ms

RuralThamesValley.jpg

RuralThamesValley.jpg

339 ms

RuralCumbria.png

RuralCumbria.png

337 ms

BedsFire.jpg

BedsFire.jpg

424 ms

Ecops.png

Ecops.png

442 ms

Leicestershire.png

Leicestershire.png

521 ms

Lincolnshire.jpg

Lincolnshire.jpg

444 ms

Derbyshire.png

Derbyshire.png

541 ms

Nottinghamshire.png

Nottinghamshire.png

567 ms

Cheshire.png

Cheshire.png

531 ms

Durham.png

Durham.png

536 ms

1px-transparent.gif

1px-transparent.gif

528 ms

StatGraph.png

StatGraph.png

628 ms

Notts.png

Notts.png

628 ms

Leics.png

Leics.png

643 ms

Cumbria.png

Cumbria.png

631 ms

Lincs.png

Lincs.png

643 ms

Derbys.png

Derbys.png

667 ms

ThamesValley.png

ThamesValley.png

718 ms

Scotland.png

Scotland.png

721 ms

Cambridgeshire.png

Cambridgeshire.png

721 ms

ComingSoon.png

ComingSoon.png

754 ms

9647_NoPlay.PNG

9647_NoPlay.PNG

746 ms

LatestAlerts.asp

LatestAlerts.asp

820 ms

Footer.jpg

Footer.jpg

807 ms

SentByIcon.png

SentByIcon.png

803 ms

EmailIcon.png

EmailIcon.png

805 ms

TwitterIcon.png

TwitterIcon.png

803 ms

FacebookIcon.png

FacebookIcon.png

808 ms

HeaderFont.ttf

HeaderFont.ttf

831 ms

wwwIcon.png

wwwIcon.png

821 ms

print.css

print.css

84 ms

light-floating.css

light-floating.css

4 ms

Accessibility Review

ruralalert.co.uk accessibility score

91

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.

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

ruralalert.co.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

SEO Factors

ruralalert.co.uk SEO score

90

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 doesn't use 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 Ruralalert.co.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 Ruralalert.co.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

ruralalert.co.uk

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