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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

nms.ac.uk

Home | National Museums Scotland

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

361 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

931 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nms.ac.uk homepage info - get ready to check Nms best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about nms.ac.uk

At National Museums Scotland we care for collections of national and international importance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nms.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 361 ms and then it took 4 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

nms.ac.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nms.ac.uk

361 ms

www.nms.ac.uk

624 ms

screen.css

386 ms

all.js

709 ms

jquery.min.js

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Nms.ac.uk, 5% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Nms.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 554.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nms.ac.uk main page is 5.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 111.5 kB

  • Original 132.9 kB
  • After minification 99.2 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 33.7 kB, which is 25% 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 111.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 411.9 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Nms images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 375.0 kB
  • After minification 375.0 kB
  • After compression 372.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 28.0 kB

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 102.2 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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. Nms.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.0 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (33%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nms. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nms.ac.uk

nms.ac.uk

361 ms

www.nms.ac.uk

www.nms.ac.uk

624 ms

screen.css

screen.css

386 ms

all.js

all.js

709 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

39 ms

moment.min.js

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57 ms

markerclusterer_compiled.js

markerclusterer_compiled.js

56 ms

js

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80 ms

gtm.js

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135 ms

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182 ms

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432 ms

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280 ms

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345 ms

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628 ms

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716 ms

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814 ms

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1295 ms

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129 ms

destination

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55 ms

FSAlbertWeb-Light.woff

FSAlbertWeb-Light.woff

1190 ms

FSAlbertWeb-Bold.woff

FSAlbertWeb-Bold.woff

1117 ms

explore.ttf

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1116 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

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18 ms

FSAlbertWeb-Regular.woff

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1075 ms

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525 ms

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1016 ms

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1035 ms

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1046 ms

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963 ms

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981 ms

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979 ms

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1010 ms

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57 ms

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180 ms

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360 ms

uwt.js

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223 ms

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165 ms

fbevents.js

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232 ms

pixie.js

pixie.js

270 ms

GetAnalytics

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527 ms

log

log

417 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

116 ms

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adsct

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149 ms

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123 ms

bounce

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97 ms

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77 ms

heatmaps.js

heatmaps.js

33 ms

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33 ms

Accessibility Review

nms.ac.uk accessibility score

90

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

Best Practices

nms.ac.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nms.ac.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Nms.ac.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 Nms.ac.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

nms.ac.uk

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