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rutland.gov.uk

Homepage | Rutland County Council

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

330 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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About Website

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Information about council services for the county of Rutland, including education, social services, planning.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rutland.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 330 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rutland.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

rutland.gov.uk

330 ms

www.rutland.gov.uk

585 ms

WebResource.axd

166 ms

style.css

249 ms

color1.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Rutland.gov.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Wsstatic.govmetric.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Govmetric.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (845 ms) belongs to the original domain Rutland.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

999.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Rutland.gov.uk main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 32.4 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. 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 23.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 980.0 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. Rutland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 11.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 28.1 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Rutland.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (39%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rutland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

rutland.gov.uk SEO score

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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 Rutland.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 Rutland.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 description is not detected on the main page of Rutland. 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: