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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

siliconglen.com

Silicon Glen, Scotland - Scottish culture and innovation

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

94 ms

About Website

Welcome to siliconglen.com homepage info - get ready to check Silicon Glen best content right away, or after learning these important things about siliconglen.com

The first online guide to Scotland. Information on Scotland and Scottish life from traditions and history to modern life including politics, software and innovation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Siliconglen.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

siliconglen.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,240 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.302

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

siliconglen.com

205 ms

www.siliconglen.scot

638 ms

styles.css

192 ms

urchin.js

22 ms

widgets.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Siliconglen.com, 50% (6 requests) were made to Siliconglen.scot and 8% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (638 ms) relates to the external source Siliconglen.scot.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.3 kB (65%)

Content Size

223.3 kB

After Optimization

77.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Siliconglen.com main page is 223.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 199.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 6.3 kB, which is 28% 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 17.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Silicon Glen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 128.0 kB

  • Original 199.1 kB
  • After minification 199.1 kB
  • After compression 71.1 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 128.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 357 B

  • Original 606 B
  • After minification 478 B
  • After compression 249 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. Siliconglen.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 357 B or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Silicon Glen. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

siliconglen.com accessibility score

86

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

siliconglen.com best practices score

67

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

siliconglen.com SEO score

95

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

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 Siliconglen.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 Siliconglen.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 Silicon Glen. 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: