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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

scottishlaw.org.uk

Scottish Law Online - Scots Law, Scottish Law, Law in Scotland

Page Load Speed

21 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

130 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Scottish Law content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scottishlaw.org.uk

Scottish Law Online is a collection of legal websites designed to assist all those with an interest in Scots Law, Scottish Law and Law in Scotland, aimed at law firms in Scotland, students, academics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scottishlaw.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 20.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

scottishlaw.org.uk performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value34.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scottishlaw.org.uk

115 ms

style.css

30 ms

datestamp.js

57 ms

ads.js

20494 ms

show_ads.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Scottishlaw.org.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Hst.tradedoubler.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) relates to the external source Assoc-amazon.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

137.8 kB

After Optimization

108.7 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scottishlaw.org.uk main page is 137.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 101.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 8.0 kB, which is 22% 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 28.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 495 B

  • Original 101.3 kB
  • After minification 101.3 kB
  • After compression 100.8 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 455 B
  • After minification 455 B
  • After compression 384 B

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. Scottishlaw.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (65%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scottish Law. 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

scottishlaw.org.uk accessibility score

76

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

scottishlaw.org.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scottishlaw.org.uk SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scottishlaw.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Scottishlaw.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scottish Law. 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: