Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

myjobscotland.gov.uk

Home | myjobscotland

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Myjobscotland.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

myjobscotland.gov.uk performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.245

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

myjobscotland.gov.uk

340 ms

www.myjobscotland.gov.uk

919 ms

system.base.css

85 ms

system.menus.css

168 ms

system.messages.css

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Myjobscotland.gov.uk, 7% (8 requests) were made to Ums.adtech.de and 4% (5 requests) were made to Dsum-sec.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (919 ms) belongs to the original domain Myjobscotland.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 824.4 kB (67%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

410.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Myjobscotland.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 697.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 79.9 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 10.0 kB, which is 13% 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 58.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 84.9 kB

  • Original 226.3 kB
  • After minification 141.5 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, Myjobscotland needs image optimization as it can save up to 84.9 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 480.2 kB

  • Original 697.4 kB
  • After minification 665.5 kB
  • After compression 217.2 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 480.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 200.7 kB

  • Original 231.6 kB
  • After minification 163.8 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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. Myjobscotland.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 200.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (75%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Myjobscotland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

myjobscotland.gov.uk accessibility score

84

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.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

myjobscotland.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

myjobscotland.gov.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Myjobscotland.gov.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Myjobscotland.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 Myjobscotland. 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: