Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

floodlinescotland.org.uk

Prepare for flooding | Beta | SEPA | Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

124 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Floodlinescotland.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

floodlinescotland.org.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

floodlinescotland.org.uk

259 ms

prepare-for-flooding

468 ms

uc.js

38 ms

js

90 ms

ga4.js

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Floodlinescotland.org.uk, 29% (7 requests) were made to Beta.sepa.scot and 17% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (468 ms) relates to the external source Beta.sepa.scot.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.5 kB (66%)

Content Size

124.1 kB

After Optimization

42.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Floodlinescotland.org.uk main page is 124.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 58.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 18.9 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 5.7 kB, which is 23% 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 20.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 40.6 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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 9.9 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 51.2 kB

  • Original 58.8 kB
  • After minification 41.1 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. Floodlinescotland.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (73%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Floodlinescotland. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

floodlinescotland.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

floodlinescotland.org.uk 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

floodlinescotland.org.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Floodlinescotland.org.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 Floodlinescotland.org.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 Floodlinescotland. 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: