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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

eastkilbride.org.uk

East Kilbride, Lanarkshire - Scotland's top town for business and leisure

Page Load Speed

20.3 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

20 sec

Page Rendered

68 ms

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About Website

Welcome to eastkilbride.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check East Kilbride best content right away, or after learning these important things about eastkilbride.org.uk

East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire is Scotland's sixth largest town and it's most successful new town. Welcome to the premier information site for East Kilbride, a great place to shop, live, p...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eastkilbride.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 20.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

eastkilbride.org.uk performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eastkilbride.org.uk

225 ms

styles.css

86 ms

urchin.js

7 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

167 ms

ButtonBar.js

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Eastkilbride.org.uk, 21% (3 requests) were made to Icons.wunderground.com and 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Banners.wunderground.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.8 kB (43%)

Content Size

27.7 kB

After Optimization

15.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eastkilbride.org.uk main page is 27.7 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. HTML takes 12.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 9.9 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 2.1 kB, which is 17% 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 8.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 345 B

  • Original 6.5 kB
  • After minification 6.2 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. East Kilbride images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 520 B

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. Eastkilbride.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of East Kilbride. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

eastkilbride.org.uk

eastkilbride.org.uk

225 ms

styles.css

styles.css

86 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

167 ms

ButtonBar.js

ButtonBar.js

166 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

03140.gif

03140.gif

19621 ms

html_linkT.gif

html_linkT.gif

71 ms

html_linkB.gif

html_linkB.gif

58 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

58 ms

ek150.jpg

ek150.jpg

95 ms

ek-head1.gif

ek-head1.gif

87 ms

st-andrews-day-banner.gif

st-andrews-day-banner.gif

164 ms

03140.gif

03140.gif

19607 ms

Accessibility Review

eastkilbride.org.uk accessibility score

50

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

eastkilbride.org.uk best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

eastkilbride.org.uk SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eastkilbride.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Eastkilbride.org.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

eastkilbride.org.uk

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