Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

golf.visitscotland.com

Scottish Golf & the Best Golf Courses in Scotland | VisitScotland

Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

6.3 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golf.visitscotland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 10.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

golf.visitscotland.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,300 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

golf.visitscotland.com

199 ms

442 ms

golf

340 ms

gtm.js

99 ms

199c210715afa15fe554.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 320 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Golf.visitscotland.com, 96% (307 requests) were made to 2f1a7f9478.visitscotland.net and 1% (4 requests) were made to Rtp-static.marketo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source 2f1a7f9478.visitscotland.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 489.3 kB (69%)

Content Size

710.6 kB

After Optimization

221.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Golf.visitscotland.com main page is 710.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 445.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 401.6 kB

  • Original 445.0 kB
  • After minification 427.9 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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. 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 401.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 68.4 kB

  • Original 242.6 kB
  • After minification 242.6 kB
  • After compression 174.2 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 68.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Golf.visitscotland.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 265 (86%)

Requests Now

309

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 309 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Golf Visit Scotland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 166 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 101 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

golf.visitscotland.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

golf.visitscotland.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

golf.visitscotland.com 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 Golf.visitscotland.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 Golf.visitscotland.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 data is detected on the main page of Golf Visit Scotland. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: