Access scottishrugbydirect.com. Scottish Rugby Union Store

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,710 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

505 ms

65606d7345bab3acd37a269772ba5026.min.css

634 ms

style-xxl.min.css

315 ms

print.min.css

418 ms

font-awesome.min.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 170 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Scottishrugbydirect.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Shop.scottishrugby.org.

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Scottishrugbydirect.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. 75% 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 203.7 kB

Original 258.8 kB
After minification 256.5 kB
After compression 55.1 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 203.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.7 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. Scottish Rugby Direct images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 203.7 kB

Original 294.0 kB
After minification 194.7 kB
After compression 90.3 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. Scottishrugbydirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 203.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Now

166

After Optimization

The browser has sent 166 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scottish Rugby Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 130 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

High

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

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Scottishrugbydirect.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 Scottishrugbydirect.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 description is not detected on the main page of Scottish Rugby Direct. 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: