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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

emascotland.com

Apply for or renew an Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) - mygov.scot

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

95 ms

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About Website

Welcome to emascotland.com homepage info - get ready to check EMA Scot Land best content right away, or after learning these important things about emascotland.com

Apply for an Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) to get financial support to study at school or college if you're 16 to 19 and from a low income household.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Emascotland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

emascotland.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.714

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

emascotland.com

165 ms

ema

114 ms

datalayer.js

69 ms

gtm.js

138 ms

script.file-downloads.outbound-links.js

206 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Emascotland.com, 74% (14 requests) were made to Mygov.scot and 16% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (384 ms) relates to the external source Mygov.scot.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.6 kB (45%)

Content Size

47.7 kB

After Optimization

26.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Emascotland.com main page is 47.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 26.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 6.3 kB, which is 24% 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 21.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (57%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EMA Scot Land. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

emascotland.com

emascotland.com

165 ms

ema

ema

114 ms

datalayer.js

datalayer.js

69 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

138 ms

script.file-downloads.outbound-links.js

script.file-downloads.outbound-links.js

206 ms

main.css

main.css

283 ms

css

css

31 ms

js-enabled.js

js-enabled.js

209 ms

svgxuse.min.js

svgxuse.min.js

206 ms

global.js

global.js

276 ms

global.es5.js

global.es5.js

384 ms

guide.js

guide.js

274 ms

guide.es5.js

guide.es5.js

276 ms

mygov.svg

mygov.svg

74 ms

ogl.svg

ogl.svg

73 ms

scottish-government--min.svg

scottish-government--min.svg

75 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

15 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

21 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

48 ms

Accessibility Review

emascotland.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

emascotland.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

emascotland.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Emascotland.com 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 Emascotland.com 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

emascotland.com

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