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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

discoverscotland.net

Discover Scotland | Delightful, Self Catering Accommodation

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

Welcome to discoverscotland.net homepage info - get ready to check Discover Scotland best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about discoverscotland.net

What better way to discover the true Scotland than by staying in one of our delightful self catering holiday homes. Welcome to Discover Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discoverscotland.net page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoverscotland.net performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,100 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.361

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.discoverscotland.net

1105 ms

css2

31 ms

jquery-ui.css

19 ms

sc.css

242 ms

style.min.css

327 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Discoverscotland.net, 3% (3 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Discoverscotland.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoverscotland.net main page is 3.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 114.8 kB

  • Original 135.0 kB
  • After minification 123.8 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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. 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 114.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Discover Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 337 B

  • Original 145.0 kB
  • After minification 145.0 kB
  • After compression 144.7 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 65.4 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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. Discoverscotland.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (45%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

48

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover 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 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.discoverscotland.net

www.discoverscotland.net

1105 ms

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31 ms

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19 ms

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242 ms

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Accessibility Review

discoverscotland.net accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

discoverscotland.net 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

discoverscotland.net SEO score

90

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 Discoverscotland.net 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 Discoverscotland.net 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

discoverscotland.net

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