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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

castleofmey.com

The Castle of Mey: Scottish Castle & Gardens | Castle Wedding Venue

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

326 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

252 ms

About Website

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Welcome to The Castle of Mey - The Queen Mother's Home in Caithness. Previously a Royal residence, The Castle of Mey is home to the beautiful surrounding gardens, visitor centre, animal centre an...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castleofmey.com page load time and found that the first response time was 326 ms and then it took 2.4 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

castleofmey.com performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.castleofmey.org.uk

326 ms

www.castleofmey.org.uk

487 ms

jquery.min.js

22 ms

jquery.js

166 ms

vue.min.js

329 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Castleofmey.com, 18% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) relates to the external source Castleofmey.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.6 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castleofmey.com main page is 2.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 22.3 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 12.8 kB, which is 37% 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 29.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB

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. Castle Of Mey images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 245.9 kB
  • After minification 245.9 kB
  • After compression 244.0 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

-84%

Potential reduce by 196.7 kB

  • Original 235.1 kB
  • After minification 234.5 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. Castleofmey.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 196.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (17%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Of Mey. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

castleofmey.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

castleofmey.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

castleofmey.com 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

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 Castleofmey.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 Castleofmey.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 data is detected on the main page of Castle Of Mey. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: