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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

bls.scot

Business Loans for Scottish SMEs | Business Loans Scotland

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

277 ms

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Business Loans Scotland help Scottish businesses thrive through business funding & investment. Business loans available for small & start-up businesses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bls.scot page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bls.scot performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bls.scot

174 ms

www.bls.scot

351 ms

css2

60 ms

all.min.css

168 ms

js

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Bls.scot, 9% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (607 ms) belongs to the original domain Bls.scot.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.9 kB (24%)

Content Size

203.9 kB

After Optimization

155.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bls.scot main page is 203.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 100.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 21.3 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.6 kB, which is 31% 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 25.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 99.4 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. Bls images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 72.2 kB
  • After minification 72.2 kB
  • After compression 50.1 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. Bls.scot needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.1 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (26%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bls. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bls.scot accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

bls.scot 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bls.scot SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Bls.scot 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 Bls.scot 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 Bls. 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: