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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% 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

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

holyrood.com

News and analysis of Scottish politics and the Scottish Parliament, Holyrood MSPs, political confere

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

269 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

542 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Holyrood.com page load time and found that the first response time was 269 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

holyrood.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

holyrood.com

269 ms

holyrood.com

341 ms

www.holyrood.com

264 ms

www.holyrood.com

633 ms

core.css

243 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Holyrood.com, 8% (6 requests) were made to Cmp.inmobi.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Holyrood.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 194.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Holyrood.com main page is 1.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 78.6 kB

  • Original 99.1 kB
  • After minification 90.1 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 78.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Holyrood images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 424.3 kB
  • After minification 417.3 kB
  • After compression 365.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 58.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 26.4 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Holyrood.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (50%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Holyrood. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

holyrood.com

holyrood.com

269 ms

holyrood.com

holyrood.com

341 ms

www.holyrood.com

www.holyrood.com

264 ms

www.holyrood.com

www.holyrood.com

633 ms

core.css

core.css

243 ms

layout.css

layout.css

394 ms

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89 ms

css

css

51 ms

jquery.min.js

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49 ms

modernizr.js

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316 ms

core.js

core.js

317 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

326 ms

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121 ms

api.js

api.js

63 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

419 ms

ScriptResource.axd

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419 ms

ScriptResource.axd

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418 ms

p.css

p.css

24 ms

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47 ms

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gtm.js

67 ms

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218 ms

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614 ms

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216 ms

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215 ms

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359 ms

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pubads_impl.js

76 ms

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recaptcha__en.js

161 ms

logo_no-tagline.svg

logo_no-tagline.svg

89 ms

js

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214 ms

quant.js

quant.js

358 ms

diffuser.js

diffuser.js

402 ms

slim-right.svg

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198 ms

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394 ms

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450 ms

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191 ms

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347 ms

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193 ms

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345 ms

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345 ms

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344 ms

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405 ms

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235 ms

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268 ms

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357 ms

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202 ms

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146 ms

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184 ms

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323 ms

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162 ms

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163 ms

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160 ms

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437 ms

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511 ms

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31 ms

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94 ms

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8 ms

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22 ms

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303 ms

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294 ms

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15 ms

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127 ms

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holyrood_logo_quantcast.svg

268 ms

geoip

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215 ms

Accessibility Review

holyrood.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

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

holyrood.com 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

holyrood.com SEO score

84

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

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 Holyrood.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 Holyrood.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

holyrood.com

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