Access edinburghcastle.scot. Official Edinburgh Castle Website

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

edinburghcastle.scot

291 ms

www.edinburghcastle.scot

469 ms

styles.css

207 ms

ivk5wbs.css

72 ms

fonts.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Edinburghcastle.scot, 13% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 13% (4 requests) were made to Sthesedcprodneu01.blob.core.windows.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (613 ms) relates to the external source Sthesedcprodneu01.blob.core.windows.net.

Content Size

689.4 kB

After Optimization

613.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Edinburghcastle.scot main page is 689.4 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 516.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

Original 56.9 kB
After minification 47.7 kB
After compression 11.2 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 9.2 kB, which is 16% 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 45.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

Original 516.7 kB
After minification 499.4 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. Edinburgh Castle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

Original 77.8 kB
After minification 77.8 kB
After compression 65.5 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 12.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 723 B

Original 38.0 kB
After minification 38.0 kB
After compression 37.3 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. Edinburghcastle.scot has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Edinburgh Castle. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.