Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% 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

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

govstore.service.gov.uk

Find people and technology on the Digital Marketplace - GOV.UK

Page Load Speed

974 ms in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

627 ms

Page Rendered

135 ms

govstore.service.gov.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Govstore.service.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 762 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

govstore.service.gov.uk performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.573

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digital-marketplace

212 ms

govuk-template-78368781f77ad5f036d7f8bada53f0034cbc4b5ddb127d4cf0380702a1f77864.css

81 ms

fonts-5ff8c53913434afd0072a480d7cfca67cace4c8d03f6ef96b78a4455728ce745.css

118 ms

static-74af0f0add99173b9cd34d323c59b4209be822c80a42c416eda9112803e3ee2d.css

99 ms

application-9cad800da25f20c3dffcad76ad5e531b0200cd8b488152c9e415a40736190dda.css

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Govstore.service.gov.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (212 ms) relates to the external source Www.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 466.8 kB (57%)

Content Size

812.3 kB

After Optimization

345.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Govstore.service.gov.uk main page is 812.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 506.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. 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 11.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 256 B

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 8.2 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. GOV Store Service images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 184.9 kB

  • Original 280.5 kB
  • After minification 266.5 kB
  • After compression 95.7 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 184.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 269.9 kB

  • Original 506.0 kB
  • After minification 503.9 kB
  • After compression 236.1 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. Govstore.service.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 269.9 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (71%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GOV Store Service. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

govstore.service.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

govstore.service.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

SEO Factors

govstore.service.gov.uk SEO score

98

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 Govstore.service.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 Govstore.service.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GOV Store Service. 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: