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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

Scottish Gifts and Souvenirs Online — Historic Scotland Shop

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

366 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

301 ms

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About Website

Welcome to shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk homepage info - get ready to check Shop Historic Scotland best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

Shop a selection of Scottish Gifts, Food, Textiles, souvenirs and more online. By shopping with us at stor.scot the official shop for Historic Scotland.

Visit shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 366 ms and then it took 3.7 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

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,470 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

366 ms

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

1117 ms

styles.min.css

548 ms

app.min.js

1223 ms

logo.svg

537 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk, 14% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.3 kB (32%)

Content Size

400.1 kB

After Optimization

273.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk main page is 400.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 227.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 36.9 kB
  • After minification 28.9 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 8.0 kB, which is 22% 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 32.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 227.0 kB
  • After minification 217.3 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. Shop Historic Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 45.9 kB

  • Original 87.3 kB
  • After minification 87.3 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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 45.9 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 48.9 kB
  • After minification 48.8 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (12%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shop Historic 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

366 ms

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

1117 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

548 ms

app.min.js

app.min.js

1223 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

537 ms

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0000690_arran-cable-knit-snood-cream_415.jpeg

599 ms

0000692_bottle-stopper-silver-crown_415.jpeg

0000692_bottle-stopper-silver-crown_415.jpeg

787 ms

0000688_horn-bangle_415.jpeg

0000688_horn-bangle_415.jpeg

729 ms

0000689_horn-bangle-cut_415.jpeg

0000689_horn-bangle-cut_415.jpeg

440 ms

0000686_knitted-knight-hat_415.jpeg

0000686_knitted-knight-hat_415.jpeg

634 ms

0000691_tartan-snood-green_415.jpeg

0000691_tartan-snood-green_415.jpeg

687 ms

0000128_tweed-gloves-for-ladies_415.jpeg

0000128_tweed-gloves-for-ladies_415.jpeg

682 ms

0000685_clutch-bag-celtic-spring_415.jpeg

0000685_clutch-bag-celtic-spring_415.jpeg

1063 ms

0000409_journal-mini-with-filigree-design_415.jpeg

0000409_journal-mini-with-filigree-design_415.jpeg

1154 ms

0000581_knee-rug-beehive-kiwi_415.jpeg

0000581_knee-rug-beehive-kiwi_415.jpeg

927 ms

0000416_large-islay-scarf-cloud_415.jpeg

0000416_large-islay-scarf-cloud_415.jpeg

933 ms

0000036_islay-beret-cloud_415.jpeg

0000036_islay-beret-cloud_415.jpeg

1024 ms

worldpay.gif

worldpay.gif

1059 ms

mastercard.svg

mastercard.svg

1113 ms

visa.svg

visa.svg

1287 ms

jcb.svg

jcb.svg

1217 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

1273 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

22 ms

collect

collect

3 ms

collect

collect

55 ms

3ae996ee-2e2f-483b-a362-d38aae8a2c7e.js

3ae996ee-2e2f-483b-a362-d38aae8a2c7e.js

139 ms

ec.js

ec.js

4 ms

collect

collect

7 ms

Accessibility Review

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk SEO score

91

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 Shop.historic-scotland.gov.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 Shop.historic-scotland.gov.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

shop.historic-scotland.gov.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shop Historic Scotland. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: