Access families.scot. Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland is changing

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.134

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

elc

179 ms

elc

357 ms

elc

356 ms

early-learning-and-childcare-thats-free-you

441 ms

udcookie.js

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Families.scot, 12% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Parentclub.scot.

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

860.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Families.scot main page is 1.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 604.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 180.3 kB

Original 217.8 kB
After minification 205.4 kB
After compression 37.6 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 180.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 70.2 kB

Original 604.8 kB
After minification 534.6 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. Obviously, Families needs image optimization as it can save up to 70.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 160.8 kB

Original 389.4 kB
After minification 384.5 kB
After compression 228.6 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 160.8 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 22 B

Original 59.9 kB
After minification 59.9 kB
After compression 59.9 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. Families.scot has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Families. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.