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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

borders.co.uk

Borders.co.uk - A Big Shout Out For The Scottish Borders

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

borders.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Borders content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about borders.co.uk

An online community for every person, business or organisation based in the Scottish Borders or for anyone with an interest in the Scottish Borders.

Visit borders.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Borders.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

borders.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

borders.co.uk

182 ms

borders.co.uk

417 ms

styles.css

81 ms

public.min.css

159 ms

css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Borders.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.iubenda.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (807 ms) belongs to the original domain Borders.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Borders.co.uk main page is 6.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 118.4 kB

  • Original 143.0 kB
  • After minification 130.5 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 118.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 408 B

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 6.2 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. Borders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 520.1 kB
  • After minification 520.1 kB
  • After compression 476.5 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

-26%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 98.3 kB
  • After minification 98.3 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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. Borders.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.5 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (31%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Borders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

borders.co.uk

borders.co.uk

182 ms

borders.co.uk

borders.co.uk

417 ms

styles.css

styles.css

81 ms

public.min.css

public.min.css

159 ms

css

css

43 ms

frontend-33010303.css

frontend-33010303.css

395 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

317 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

238 ms

public.min.js

public.min.js

242 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

35 ms

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239 ms

iubenda_cs.js

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34 ms

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237 ms

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314 ms

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564 ms

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561 ms

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50 ms

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317 ms

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560 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

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562 ms

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560 ms

iubenda.js

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32 ms

forms.js

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561 ms

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93 ms

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393 ms

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95 ms

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479 ms

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229 ms

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302 ms

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301 ms

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228 ms

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301 ms

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393 ms

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394 ms

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520 ms

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595 ms

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426 ms

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516 ms

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518 ms

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507 ms

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571 ms

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585 ms

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594 ms

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601 ms

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759 ms

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646 ms

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672 ms

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673 ms

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674 ms

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682 ms

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738 ms

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747 ms

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673 ms

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749 ms

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673 ms

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731 ms

Earlston.jpg

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746 ms

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746 ms

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754 ms

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753 ms

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134 ms

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176 ms

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807 ms

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222 ms

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103 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

255 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

148 ms

iubenda_i_badge.js

iubenda_i_badge.js

39 ms

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700 ms

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699 ms

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628 ms

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629 ms

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621 ms

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590 ms

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600 ms

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11 ms

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579 ms

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582 ms

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530 ms

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500 ms

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544 ms

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551 ms

Accessibility Review

borders.co.uk accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

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.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

borders.co.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

borders.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Borders.co.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 Borders.co.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

borders.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Borders. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: