design-guide.publishing.service.gov.uk
https://design-guide.publishing.service.gov.uk/
Ranks Overall #1,141 Built Awesome #785
Data from Oct 5, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC old Measured once a week · 8 runs since Aug 20, 2026
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Lighthouse benchmark index was 4,327, 74% faster than this project's median of 2,486. CPU-bound metrics — TBT, TTI, main thread work — are affected by this and may have moved without the site changing at all.
Lab data is measured using Lighthouse, Mobile mode unless otherwise specified. Field data is reported from Chrome UX Report (using p75 measurements).
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Lighthouse Scores LAB Simulated
Metrics LAB
No field data: the Chrome UX Report is not being collected for this project, so every figure below is from the Lighthouse run.
| Metric | Lab Simulated | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Change / range | Trend | |
| LCP CWV (estimate) Largest Contentful Paint | 1.40 s good | ↓ -110 ms (-7.3%) significant 1.40 s – 1.51 s | |
| INP CWV Interaction to Next Paint — field only, no lab run can measure it | n/a | — | |
| CLS CWV (estimate) Cumulative Layout Shift | 0 good | → no change 0 – 0.083 | |
| TBT Total Blocking Time | 0 ms good | → no change 0 ms – 0 ms | |
| FCP First Contentful Paint | 1.25 s good | ↑ +40 ms (+3.3%) 1.20 s – 1.50 s | |
| Speed Index | 1.25 s good | ↑ +40 ms (+3.3%) 1.20 s – 1.50 s | |
| TTFB Time to First Byte | 650 ms good | ↑ +40 ms (+6.6%) significant 602 ms – 650 ms | |
LCP Subparts LAB Unthrottled
The subparts attribute LCP to your server, resource discovery, download, or rendering. Note that the Lab LCP shown above is a simulated throttled estimate.
Page weight
| Metric | Value | Change / range | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page Weight | 147 kB | ↑ +205 B (+0.1%) 147 kB – 147 kB | |
| Requests | 9 | → no change 9 – 9 | |
| Third-party Weight | 0 B | → no change 0 B – 0 B | |
| Third-party CPU | 0 ms | → no change 0 ms – 0 ms | |
| Unused JS | 21.1 kB | → no change 21.1 kB – 21.1 kB | |
| Unused CSS | 19.8 kB | → no change 19.8 kB – 19.8 kB |
By resource type
| Type | Transfer | Share | Size | Requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| font | 45% | 65.3 kB | 2 | |
| script | 23.2% | 33.7 kB | 2 | |
| stylesheet | 14.9% | 21.6 kB | 1 | |
| image | 12.8% | 18.7 kB | 2 | |
| document | 4.2% | 6.1 kB | 1 | |
| Total | 147 kB | 9 |
Without JavaScript
The same load, photographed twice at 412×823: once with scripts disabled, once as rendered.
49.8% of pixels differ — parts of the page change. A shifted layout counts as difference, so a <noscript> banner alone can account for a large figure.
Page health
| Metric | Value | Change / range | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Thread Work | 206 ms | ↑ +14 ms (+7.2%) 192 ms – 294 ms | |
| Long Tasks | 0 | → no change 0 – 0 | |
| DOM Elements | 146 | → no change 146 – 146 | |
| Axe Violations Violating nodes from a full Axe CLI run (more than Lighthouse reports) | 7 | → no change 7 – 7 | |
| A11y Failures | 0 | → no change 0 – 0 | |
| A11y Failing Nodes | 0 | → no change 0 – 0 |
Main thread work
| Task | Time | Share | Duration Simulated |
|---|---|---|---|
| other | 39% | 79 ms | |
| style layout | 24% | 50 ms | |
| paint composite render | 17% | 34 ms | |
| script evaluation | 15% | 31 ms | |
| parse HTML | 5% | 10 ms | |
| script parse compile | 1% | 2 ms | |
| Total | 206 ms |
Axe violations axe-core 4.13.0, full rule set
7 violating nodes across 6 rules, 252 passing. This is a standalone Axe CLI run and is stricter than the subset Lighthouse already includes.
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moderate
landmark-unique— Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination 2 nodesOffending elements
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header<header class="govuk-template__header"> -
footer<footer class="govuk-template__footer">
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moderate
landmark-banner-is-top-level— Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark 1 nodeOffending element
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.govuk-header<div class="govuk-header app-header govuk-header--full-width-border" role="banner" data-module="govuk-header">
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moderate
landmark-contentinfo-is-top-level— Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark 1 nodeOffending element
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.govuk-footer<div class="govuk-footer app-footer " role="contentinfo">
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moderate
landmark-no-duplicate-banner— Document should not have more than one banner landmark 1 nodeOffending element
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header<header class="govuk-template__header">
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moderate
landmark-no-duplicate-contentinfo— Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark 1 nodeOffending element
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footer<footer class="govuk-template__footer">
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moderate
region— All page content should be contained by landmarks 1 nodeOffending element
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.govuk-skip-link<a href="#main-content" class="govuk-skip-link" data-module="govuk-skip-link" data-govuk-skip-link-init="">Skip to main content</a>
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Measurement log
Every stored run for this URL, newest first.
| When | Scores | Perf | LCP | CLS | TBT | Weight | Runs | Spread | Bench | Took | Archive |
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| Oct 5, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC | 100 | 1.40 s | 0 | 0 ms | 147 kB | 3/3 | ±2 | 4,327 +74% | 19.8s |
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| Sep 28, 2026, 6:33 PM UTC | 100 | 1.51 s | 0 | 0 ms | 147 kB | 3/3 | ±2 | 3,419 +38% | 25.1s |
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| Sep 21, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC | 100 | 1.50 s | 0 | 0 ms | 147 kB | 3/3 | ±2 | 2,435 -2% | 20.8s |
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| Sep 14, 2026, 11:57 AM UTC | 98 | 1.51 s | 0.083 | 0 ms | 147 kB | 3/3 | ±2 | 2,488 0% | 20.1s |
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| Sep 7, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC | 100 | 1.50 s | 0 | 0 ms | 147 kB | 3/3 | ±2 | 2,492 0% | 21.2s |
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| Aug 31, 2026, 3:55 AM UTC | 100 | 1.51 s | 0 | 0 ms | 147 kB | 3/3 | ±0 | 3,104 +25% | 20.5s |
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| Aug 21, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC | 98 | 1.50 s | 0.083 | 0 ms | 147 kB | 3/3 | ±3 | 2,479 0% | 27.9s |
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| Aug 20, 2026, 7:41 PM UTC | TRACING_ALREADY_STARTED: An internal Chrome error occurred. Please restart Chrome and try re-running Lighthouse. |
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