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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

hostellingscotland.org.uk

Hostelling Scotland | Book Direct for Best Price Guaranteed!

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

hostellingscotland.org.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostellingscotland.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 4.1 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

hostellingscotland.org.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,110 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hostellingscotland.org.uk

285 ms

hostellingscotland.org.uk

957 ms

gtm.js

67 ms

css-script.css.v151

555 ms

brand-logo.svg

376 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Hostellingscotland.org.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Hihostels.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Static.ctctcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) belongs to the original domain Hostellingscotland.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 798.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hostellingscotland.org.uk main page is 4.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 110.5 kB

  • Original 125.6 kB
  • After minification 90.0 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 35.5 kB, which is 28% 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 110.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 168.7 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Hostelling Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 517.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 562.6 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 517.6 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 76.2 kB
  • After compression 74.6 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. Hostellingscotland.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (18%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hostelling 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hostellingscotland.org.uk

hostellingscotland.org.uk

285 ms

hostellingscotland.org.uk

hostellingscotland.org.uk

957 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

67 ms

css-script.css.v151

css-script.css.v151

555 ms

brand-logo.svg

brand-logo.svg

376 ms

svgcollection.svg

svgcollection.svg

697 ms

highlands.svg

highlands.svg

532 ms

islands.svg

islands.svg

565 ms

lowlands.svg

lowlands.svg

652 ms

best-price.jpg

best-price.jpg

457 ms

hotjar-badge-light.png

hotjar-badge-light.png

62 ms

js-scripts.js.v151

js-scripts.js.v151

567 ms

api.js

api.js

50 ms

widget-es5.min.js

widget-es5.min.js

93 ms

widget.css

widget.css

89 ms

signup-form-widget.min.js

signup-form-widget.min.js

84 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

107 ms

fb-logo-white.png

fb-logo-white.png

355 ms

instagram-logo-white.png

instagram-logo-white.png

356 ms

x-logo-white.png

x-logo-white.png

398 ms

you-tube-logo-white.png

you-tube-logo-white.png

398 ms

hi-logo.png

hi-logo.png

728 ms

3-for-2-winter-promo-carousel-image.jpg

3-for-2-winter-promo-carousel-image.jpg

985 ms

walk-out-to-autumn-carousel-image.jpg

walk-out-to-autumn-carousel-image.jpg

465 ms

dog-friendly-achmelvich-beach-2.jpg

dog-friendly-achmelvich-beach-2.jpg

430 ms

adventure-carousel-image-aug-2024.jpg

adventure-carousel-image-aug-2024.jpg

528 ms

new-rentahostel-carousel-aug-2024.jpg

new-rentahostel-carousel-aug-2024.jpg

529 ms

homepage-welcome-2.jpg

homepage-welcome-2.jpg

529 ms

region-highlights1.jpg

region-highlights1.jpg

528 ms

region-highlights-3.jpg

region-highlights-3.jpg

615 ms

region-highlights-2.jpg

region-highlights-2.jpg

683 ms

edinburgh-central-july-2024-1.jpg

edinburgh-central-july-2024-1.jpg

602 ms

new-glen-nevis-header-july-2024.jpg

new-glen-nevis-header-july-2024.jpg

615 ms

cairngorm-lodge-masthead.jpg

cairngorm-lodge-masthead.jpg

622 ms

portree-july-2024.jpg

portree-july-2024.jpg

690 ms

helmsdale-masthead.jpg

helmsdale-masthead.jpg

706 ms

alt-new-pitlochry-header-image-july-24.jpg

alt-new-pitlochry-header-image-july-24.jpg

709 ms

new-rowardennan-header-july-2024.jpg

new-rowardennan-header-july-2024.jpg

732 ms

torridon-header-july-2024.jpg

torridon-header-july-2024.jpg

774 ms

braemar-masthead-june-2024.jpg

braemar-masthead-june-2024.jpg

781 ms

carousel-pics-7.jpg

carousel-pics-7.jpg

885 ms

Adelle-SemiBold.woff

Adelle-SemiBold.woff

794 ms

Europa-Regular.woff

Europa-Regular.woff

823 ms

Europa-Bold.woff

Europa-Bold.woff

886 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

134 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

86 ms

underscore-min.js

underscore-min.js

56 ms

signup-form-widget.css

signup-form-widget.css

18 ms

b17ea7e45a3602f5974bbe77b56c37f7.json

b17ea7e45a3602f5974bbe77b56c37f7.json

102 ms

Accessibility Review

hostellingscotland.org.uk accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

hostellingscotland.org.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hostellingscotland.org.uk SEO score

82

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

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 Hostellingscotland.org.uk 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 Hostellingscotland.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

hostellingscotland.org.uk

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