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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

stoke.gov.uk

SoTCC homepage

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

366 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

220 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stoke.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 366 ms and then it took 2 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

stoke.gov.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.829

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stoke.gov.uk

366 ms

www.stoke.gov.uk

622 ms

orbit.css

89 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

235 ms

swfobject.js

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Stoke.gov.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (622 ms) belongs to the original domain Stoke.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

809.5 kB

After Optimization

740.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stoke.gov.uk main page is 809.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 519.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 40.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.8 kB, which is 32% 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 50.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 519.3 kB
  • After minification 511.7 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. Stoke images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 166.3 kB
  • After minification 166.3 kB
  • After compression 155.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 182 B

  • Original 64.6 kB
  • After minification 64.6 kB
  • After compression 64.5 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. Stoke.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (71%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stoke. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stoke.gov.uk

stoke.gov.uk

366 ms

www.stoke.gov.uk

www.stoke.gov.uk

622 ms

orbit.css

orbit.css

89 ms

standard_widget_styles.css

standard_widget_styles.css

235 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

234 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

246 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

24 ms

orbit.js

orbit.js

321 ms

almond.min.js

almond.min.js

321 ms

util.min.js

util.min.js

333 ms

js

js

51 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

126 ms

element.js

element.js

46 ms

css

css

33 ms

homepage_top_spitfire.jpg

homepage_top_spitfire.jpg

188 ms

stoke-logo--white.svg

stoke-logo--white.svg

180 ms

icon-language--white.svg

icon-language--white.svg

154 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

155 ms

icon-chevron-right.svg

icon-chevron-right.svg

155 ms

icon-chevron-right--brown.svg

icon-chevron-right--brown.svg

156 ms

img2_sculpture.jpg

img2_sculpture.jpg

309 ms

icon-facebook.svg

icon-facebook.svg

212 ms

icon-youtube.svg

icon-youtube.svg

214 ms

icon-twitter.svg

icon-twitter.svg

215 ms

icon-flickr.svg

icon-flickr.svg

237 ms

1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVvaorCIPrQ.ttf

1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVvaorCIPrQ.ttf

69 ms

1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVs9pbCIPrQ.ttf

1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVs9pbCIPrQ.ttf

70 ms

icons.data.svg.css

icons.data.svg.css

88 ms

Accessibility Review

stoke.gov.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

stoke.gov.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stoke.gov.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Stoke.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 Stoke.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

stoke.gov.uk

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