Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

scotland.org.uk

Scotland Travel, Holidays, Hotels, Self Catering Cottages, Tours, Guide

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

484 ms

scotland.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Scotland content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scotland.org.uk

Discover the best of Scotland with our guide to hotels, cottages, tours and everything you need to enjoy a fabulous holiday or short break anywhere in Scotland

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotland.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scotland.org.uk performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,610 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.939

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotland.org.uk

210 ms

www.scotland.org.uk

1083 ms

content.min.css

67 ms

style.css

68 ms

jquery.min.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Scotland.org.uk, 35% (21 requests) were made to D1a6qvk7ptxv3.cloudfront.net and 28% (17 requests) were made to Dgnikl3i2nogb.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Scotland.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

812.4 kB

After Optimization

714.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Scotland.org.uk main page is 812.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 420.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 83.9 kB
  • After minification 77.3 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 69.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 420.8 kB
  • After minification 413.9 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. Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 647 B

  • Original 226.4 kB
  • After minification 226.4 kB
  • After compression 225.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 81.3 kB
  • After minification 81.0 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. Scotland.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.3 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (50%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scotland.org.uk accessibility score

93

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

scotland.org.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scotland.org.uk SEO score

83

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

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 Scotland.org.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 Scotland.org.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 description is not detected on the main page of 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: