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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

thurrock.gov.uk

Thurrock Council

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

306 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Thurrock content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thurrock.gov.uk

Thurrock Council is a unitary authority in the east of England.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thurrock.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 306 ms and then it took 1.9 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

thurrock.gov.uk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thurrock.gov.uk

306 ms

www.thurrock.gov.uk

405 ms

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70 ms

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138 ms

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205 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Thurrock.gov.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (477 ms) belongs to the original domain Thurrock.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thurrock.gov.uk main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 30.1 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 23.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 84.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 980.6 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. Thurrock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 102.6 kB
  • After minification 100.3 kB
  • After compression 83.8 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 18.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Thurrock.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (58%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thurrock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thurrock.gov.uk

thurrock.gov.uk

306 ms

www.thurrock.gov.uk

www.thurrock.gov.uk

405 ms

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70 ms

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css_lkvHUqwuaMnlSkPLjR6wgdcvM88sr5Mi-fDRQ-vdqKU.css

138 ms

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205 ms

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207 ms

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277 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

207 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

284 ms

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

207 ms

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

273 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

272 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

275 ms

jquery.ui.core.min.js

jquery.ui.core.min.js

295 ms

jquery.ui.widget.min.js

jquery.ui.widget.min.js

340 ms

jquery.ui.accordion.min.js

jquery.ui.accordion.min.js

341 ms

jquery.ui.mouse.min.js

jquery.ui.mouse.min.js

344 ms

jquery.ui.draggable.min.js

jquery.ui.draggable.min.js

344 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

345 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

346 ms

cookiemessage.js

cookiemessage.js

408 ms

googleanalytics.js

googleanalytics.js

409 ms

js

js

56 ms

jquery.mobile.custom.js

jquery.mobile.custom.js

472 ms

tgov-front.js

tgov-front.js

473 ms

tgov.js

tgov.js

474 ms

tgov-breadcrumb.js

tgov-breadcrumb.js

475 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

477 ms

ga.js

ga.js

61 ms

leaf-black.png

leaf-black.png

152 ms

leaf-transparent.png

leaf-transparent.png

79 ms

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carousel_bins_desktop_0.jpg

216 ms

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carousel_bins_tablet_0.jpg

150 ms

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222 ms

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216 ms

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286 ms

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288 ms

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myarea_720x110.png

289 ms

static-aerial1.jpg

static-aerial1.jpg

353 ms

static-electionspolling.jpg

static-electionspolling.jpg

431 ms

static_thurrocknews-v03.jpg

static_thurrocknews-v03.jpg

294 ms

footer-facebook.png

footer-facebook.png

354 ms

footer-twitter.png

footer-twitter.png

356 ms

footer-flickr.png

footer-flickr.png

357 ms

footer-youtube.png

footer-youtube.png

364 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

421 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

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74 ms

Accessibility Review

thurrock.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thurrock.gov.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thurrock.gov.uk SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thurrock.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 Thurrock.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

thurrock.gov.uk

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