Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

scotcrestschools.co.uk

Scotcrest Schools | School Uniform Supplier Scotland

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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About Website

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Scotcrest Schools are the preferred supplier for school uniforms in North Lanarkshire and Central Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotcrestschools.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scotcrestschools.co.uk performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotcrestschools.co.uk

26 ms

scotcrestschools.co.uk

294 ms

css

30 ms

j-strap.css

20 ms

font-awesome.min.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 180 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (175 requests) were addressed to the original Scotcrestschools.co.uk, 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (404 ms) belongs to the original domain Scotcrestschools.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 510.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Scotcrestschools.co.uk main page is 4.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 94.6 kB

  • Original 108.5 kB
  • After minification 108.5 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 94.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 396.9 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Scotcrest Schools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 106.9 kB
  • After compression 97.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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. Scotcrestschools.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.3 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (25%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

130

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scotcrest Schools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scotcrestschools.co.uk accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

scotcrestschools.co.uk best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

scotcrestschools.co.uk SEO score

87

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 Scotcrestschools.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 Scotcrestschools.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 Scotcrest Schools. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: