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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

cyclingscotland.org

Scotland's National Cycling Charity - Cycling Scotland

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

266 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

233 ms

cyclingscotland.org screenshot

About Website

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

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

Visit cyclingscotland.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Cyclingscotland.org page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cyclingscotland.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,670 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cyclingscotland.org

266 ms

style.css

163 ms

form.css

167 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

170 ms

flickr-mini-gallery.css

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Cyclingscotland.org, 19% (15 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Cyclingscotland.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 225.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cyclingscotland.org main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 27.1 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 3.4 kB, which is 13% 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 20.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 952.5 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. Cycling Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 108.9 kB

  • Original 174.0 kB
  • After minification 154.7 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 108.9 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 59.0 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Cyclingscotland.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (38%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cycling 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cyclingscotland.org

cyclingscotland.org

266 ms

style.css

style.css

163 ms

form.css

form.css

167 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

170 ms

flickr-mini-gallery.css

flickr-mini-gallery.css

171 ms

shadowbox.css

shadowbox.css

171 ms

extras.css

extras.css

171 ms

styles.css

styles.css

320 ms

www.cycling.scot

www.cycling.scot

177 ms

style.css

style.css

320 ms

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jquery.js

441 ms

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superfish.js

319 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

327 ms

miniflickr.js

miniflickr.js

323 ms

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478 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

jquery.innerfade.js

477 ms

admin-ajax.php

admin-ajax.php

521 ms

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480 ms

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scripts.js

482 ms

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main.js

593 ms

reset.css

reset.css

478 ms

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main.css

480 ms

typography.css

typography.css

486 ms

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555 ms

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152 ms

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176 ms

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177 ms

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178 ms

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177 ms

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250 ms

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610 ms

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723 ms

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748 ms

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405 ms

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328 ms

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553 ms

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693 ms

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776 ms

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5 ms

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835 ms

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33 ms

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687 ms

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Accessibility Review

cyclingscotland.org accessibility score

78

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

cyclingscotland.org best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cyclingscotland.org SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Cyclingscotland.org 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 Cyclingscotland.org 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

cyclingscotland.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cycling 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: