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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

buildscotland.co.uk

Scottish Construction directory, Construction News, plant hire & sales, jobs Scotland

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildscotland.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildscotland.co.uk performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildscotland.co.uk

195 ms

www.buildscotland.co.uk

562 ms

js.css

186 ms

all.css

369 ms

font-awesome.min.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Buildscotland.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (789 ms) belongs to the original domain Buildscotland.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

822.2 kB

After Optimization

531.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildscotland.co.uk main page is 822.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 449.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 195.5 kB

  • Original 220.3 kB
  • After minification 115.9 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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 104.4 kB, which is 47% 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 195.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 449.2 kB
  • After minification 437.8 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. Build Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 63.0 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 53.4 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 9.6 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 89.6 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. Buildscotland.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 74.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (32%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

buildscotland.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

buildscotland.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

buildscotland.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Buildscotland.co.uk 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 Buildscotland.co.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 Build 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: