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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

ros.gov.uk

Registers of Scotland - Scotland's land and property registers

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

389 ms

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About Website

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We're responsible for keeping public registers of land, property, and other legal documents in Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ros.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ros.gov.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.285

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ros.gov.uk

241 ms

global.css

106 ms

font-awesome.min.css

126 ms

jquery-ui.css

102 ms

modernizr.min.js

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Ros.gov.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (879 ms) belongs to the original domain Ros.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ros.gov.uk main page is 3.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 45.1 kB

  • Original 54.7 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 6.5 kB, which is 12% 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 45.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 336.1 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, Ros needs image optimization as it can save up to 336.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 943.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 841.5 kB
  • After compression 253.5 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 943.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 269.8 kB

  • Original 315.8 kB
  • After minification 246.1 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Ros.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 269.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (30%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ros. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.ros.gov.uk

www.ros.gov.uk

241 ms

global.css

global.css

106 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

126 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

102 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

125 ms

css3-mediaqueries.js

css3-mediaqueries.js

156 ms

js

js

79 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

178 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

194 ms

plugins.min.js

plugins.min.js

193 ms

highcharts.src.js

highcharts.src.js

248 ms

highcharts-data.js

highcharts-data.js

190 ms

minified.min.js

minified.min.js

247 ms

global.js

global.js

246 ms

logo.png

logo.png

77 ms

quarterly_stats_oct_dec_2015_carousel.jpg

quarterly_stats_oct_dec_2015_carousel.jpg

188 ms

feb_first_reg_workshop_carousel.jpg

feb_first_reg_workshop_carousel.jpg

160 ms

eformsslider_1.jpg

eformsslider_1.jpg

161 ms

land_property_hub_carousel.jpg

land_property_hub_carousel.jpg

499 ms

ux_panel_homepage_carousel2.jpg

ux_panel_homepage_carousel2.jpg

852 ms

flex-prev.png

flex-prev.png

160 ms

flex-next.png

flex-next.png

191 ms

flex-pause.png

flex-pause.png

190 ms

scotlandmap-big.png

scotlandmap-big.png

196 ms

RoS_0000_map-of-scotland.png

RoS_0000_map-of-scotland.png

242 ms

latest-news-bg.jpg

latest-news-bg.jpg

268 ms

keepers_message_feb16_thumbnail.jpg

keepers_message_feb16_thumbnail.jpg

251 ms

feb_enhancements_thumbnail.jpg

feb_enhancements_thumbnail.jpg

261 ms

RoS-new-identity_blk_no-url.jpg

RoS-new-identity_blk_no-url.jpg

830 ms

quarterly_stats_oct_dec_2015_thumbnail.jpg

quarterly_stats_oct_dec_2015_thumbnail.jpg

304 ms

services.jpg

services.jpg

879 ms

quicklink_propdata.jpg

quicklink_propdata.jpg

317 ms

quicklink_contact.jpg

quicklink_contact.jpg

354 ms

quick-links-item-4.png

quick-links-item-4.png

373 ms

ogl-logo.png

ogl-logo.png

406 ms

award-1.png

award-1.png

428 ms

award-2.png

award-2.png

457 ms

award-3.png

award-3.png

484 ms

Lato-Bold.woff

Lato-Bold.woff

508 ms

Lato-Regular.woff

Lato-Regular.woff

536 ms

Lato-Light.woff

Lato-Light.woff

558 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

504 ms

count.js

count.js

87 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

76 ms

map-images-json

map-images-json

447 ms

charts_data_feb_2015.csv

charts_data_feb_2015.csv

572 ms

flex-dot-active.png

flex-dot-active.png

460 ms

flex-dot.png

flex-dot.png

486 ms

close_btn.png

close_btn.png

515 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

ui-bg_highlight-soft_100_eeeeee_1x100.png

ui-bg_highlight-soft_100_eeeeee_1x100.png

95 ms

print.css

print.css

92 ms

Accessibility Review

ros.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ros.gov.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

ros.gov.uk SEO score

96

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

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 Ros.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 Ros.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

ros.gov.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ros. 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: