Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

royalhighlandcentre.co.uk

The Royal Highland Centre, Scotland's largest indoor & outdoor venue

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

royalhighlandcentre.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Royalhighlandcentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

royalhighlandcentre.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

royalhighlandcentre.co.uk

67 ms

royalhighlandcentre.co.uk

134 ms

www.royalhighlandcentre.co.uk

280 ms

gtm.js

81 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

132 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 Royalhighlandcentre.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (345 ms) belongs to the original domain Royalhighlandcentre.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (53%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Royalhighlandcentre.co.uk main page is 4.7 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 4.1 kB, which is 18% 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 18.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Obviously, Royal Highland Centre needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.4 MB or 56% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 56.8 kB

  • Original 300.6 kB
  • After minification 300.6 kB
  • After compression 243.8 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 56.8 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 56.7 kB
  • After minification 56.7 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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. Royalhighlandcentre.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (45%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Royal Highland Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

royalhighlandcentre.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

royalhighlandcentre.co.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

royalhighlandcentre.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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

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 Royalhighlandcentre.co.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 Royalhighlandcentre.co.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

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