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westminster.mod.uk

Defence Gateway - Login

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

535 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

148 ms

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About Website

Visit westminster.mod.uk now to see the best up-to-date Westminster content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about westminster.mod.uk

The Defence Gateway provides you with a simple one-step process for accessing all of your essential MOD online services. Armynet, ACMS, SharePoint, App Store, DSTAN, KiD and ATG(A).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westminster.mod.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 535 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westminster.mod.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

westminster.mod.uk

535 ms

login

761 ms

sts.defencegateway.mod.uk

617 ms

Login.aspx

96 ms

styleV3.13.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Westminster.mod.uk, 88% (14 requests) were made to Sts.defencegateway.mod.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (761 ms) belongs to the original domain Westminster.mod.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 307.6 kB (71%)

Content Size

433.2 kB

After Optimization

125.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Westminster.mod.uk main page is 433.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 361.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 3.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 11.5 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. Obviously, Westminster needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.8 kB or 55% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 259.6 kB

  • Original 361.9 kB
  • After minification 354.5 kB
  • After compression 102.3 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 259.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. Westminster.mod.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (33%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westminster. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

westminster.mod.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westminster.mod.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Westminster.mod.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 Westminster. 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: