Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

aboutscotland.com

About Scotland bed and breakfast, self catering rental, hotel accommodation, touring

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

175 ms

Resources Loaded

817 ms

Page Rendered

114 ms

aboutscotland.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aboutscotland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 175 ms and then it took 931 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aboutscotland.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aboutscotland.com

175 ms

adsbygoogle.js

156 ms

js

73 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

72 ms

jquery-1.12.0.min.js

260 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Aboutscotland.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (384 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

750.6 kB

After Optimization

677.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Aboutscotland.com main page is 750.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 475.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 15.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 129 B

  • Original 197.2 kB
  • After minification 197.0 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. About Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 475.8 kB
  • After minification 475.8 kB
  • After compression 461.0 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

-78%

Potential reduce by 42.7 kB

  • Original 54.9 kB
  • After minification 41.1 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. Aboutscotland.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of About Scotland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aboutscotland.com 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

aboutscotland.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

aboutscotland.com 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 Aboutscotland.com 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 Aboutscotland.com 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 About Scotland. 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: