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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

business.bankofscotland.co.uk

Home | Business Banking | Bank of Scotland Business

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

460 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

108 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Business.bankofscotland.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 460 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

business.bankofscotland.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.46

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

business.bankofscotland.co.uk

460 ms

global.css

1149 ms

logo.png

470 ms

base.css

717 ms

accordion.css

740 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Business.bankofscotland.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Business.bankofscotland.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.8 kB (82%)

Content Size

128.5 kB

After Optimization

22.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Business.bankofscotland.co.uk main page is 128.5 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. CSS take 82.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 655 B, which is 14% 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 3.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 41.0 kB
  • After minification 9.2 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. Obviously, Business Bank Of Scotland needs image optimization as it can save up to 31.7 kB or 77% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 82.9 kB
  • After minification 61.4 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. Business.bankofscotland.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business Bank Of Scotland. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

business.bankofscotland.co.uk

business.bankofscotland.co.uk

460 ms

global.css

global.css

1149 ms

logo.png

logo.png

470 ms

base.css

base.css

717 ms

accordion.css

accordion.css

740 ms

header_bg.png

header_bg.png

334 ms

logo_screen.png

logo_screen.png

306 ms

bg_left.png

bg_left.png

407 ms

bg_right_wide.png

bg_right_wide.png

566 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

523 ms

Accessibility Review

business.bankofscotland.co.uk accessibility score

72

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Best Practices

business.bankofscotland.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

business.bankofscotland.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 Business.bankofscotland.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 Business.bankofscotland.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

business.bankofscotland.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Business Bank Of Scotland. 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: