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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

cycling.scot

Scotland's National Cycling Charity - Cycling Scotland

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

258 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

204 ms

cycling.scot screenshot

About Website

Visit cycling.scot now to see the best up-to-date Cycling content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cycling.scot

Working with others, we help create and deliver opportunities and an environment so anyone anywhere in Scotland can cycle easily and safely.

Visit cycling.scot

Key Findings

We analyzed Cycling.scot page load time and found that the first response time was 258 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cycling.scot performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,730 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cycling.scot

258 ms

cycling.scot

606 ms

modernizr.js

84 ms

jquery-2.2.0.min.js

216 ms

master.min.css

366 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Cycling.scot, 21% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 9% (3 requests) were made to C2.thirdlight.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (783 ms) relates to the external source C2.thirdlight.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cycling.scot main page is 2.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 108.0 kB

  • Original 117.8 kB
  • After minification 78.8 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 39.0 kB, which is 33% 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 108.0 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Cycling images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 105.7 kB
  • After minification 105.7 kB
  • After compression 104.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 867 B

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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. Cycling.scot has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (42%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cycling. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cycling.scot

cycling.scot

258 ms

cycling.scot

cycling.scot

606 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

84 ms

jquery-2.2.0.min.js

jquery-2.2.0.min.js

216 ms

master.min.css

master.min.css

366 ms

alv7wwd.js

alv7wwd.js

97 ms

js

js

79 ms

plugins.min.js

plugins.min.js

359 ms

app.min.js

app.min.js

240 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

37 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

41 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

87 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

87 ms

Bikeability-2022-CyclingScotland-012.webp

Bikeability-2022-CyclingScotland-012.webp

492 ms

2020.jpg

2020.jpg

514 ms

Angie%20Murchison%202.webp

Angie%20Murchison%202.webp

491 ms

cycling-scotland-logo-invert.svg

cycling-scotland-logo-invert.svg

210 ms

search.svg

search.svg

209 ms

Ferryhill-portraits-088-2114x600.jpg

Ferryhill-portraits-088-2114x600.jpg

701 ms

pink-arrow.svg

pink-arrow.svg

209 ms

2023_CYCLING_SCOTLAND_CONF_EDINBURGH_024-crop-3.jpg

2023_CYCLING_SCOTLAND_CONF_EDINBURGH_024-crop-3.jpg

663 ms

oscr.jpg

oscr.jpg

266 ms

Winter-Cycling-193.webp

Winter-Cycling-193.webp

783 ms

Bantaskine-Primary-Bikeability-052.webp

Bantaskine-Primary-Bikeability-052.webp

778 ms

i

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143 ms

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144 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

308 ms

164 ms

i

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118 ms

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26 ms

i

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130 ms

i

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36 ms

29 ms

Accessibility Review

cycling.scot accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

cycling.scot best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cycling.scot SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Cycling.scot 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 Cycling.scot 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

cycling.scot

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