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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

scotsfamily.com

Scottish genealogy and Scottish family tree research service within Scotland from Scots Family

Page Load Speed

723 ms in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

520 ms

Page Rendered

118 ms

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About Website

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Scots Family offers Scottish genealogy research for people with Scottish family ancestry and roots in Scotland. Provides Scottish family trees with photographs and maps from Scotland's history.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotsfamily.com page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 638 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scotsfamily.com performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotsfamily.com

85 ms

www.scotsfamily.com

181 ms

urchin.js

18 ms

gentrack.asp

90 ms

flagcorner.gif

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Scotsfamily.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (181 ms) belongs to the original domain Scotsfamily.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

65.9 kB

After Optimization

40.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Scotsfamily.com main page is 65.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 30.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 23.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 974 B

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 28.0 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. Scots Family images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (39%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scots Family. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scotsfamily.com

scotsfamily.com

85 ms

www.scotsfamily.com

www.scotsfamily.com

181 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

18 ms

gentrack.asp

gentrack.asp

90 ms

flagcorner.gif

flagcorner.gif

48 ms

flag2.gif

flag2.gif

86 ms

bhome.gif

bhome.gif

121 ms

bancestor.gif

bancestor.gif

116 ms

benquiries.gif

benquiries.gif

116 ms

bphotos.gif

bphotos.gif

115 ms

bmaps.gif

bmaps.gif

116 ms

bparish.gif

bparish.gif

115 ms

boccupation.gif

boccupation.gif

120 ms

bshop.gif

bshop.gif

119 ms

blinks.gif

blinks.gif

119 ms

babout.gif

babout.gif

119 ms

blacksmithW-small.jpg

blacksmithW-small.jpg

118 ms

Newhaven-small.jpg

Newhaven-small.jpg

130 ms

Who%20do%20you%20think%20you%20are.jpg

Who%20do%20you%20think%20you%20are.jpg

139 ms

david_tennant_small4.jpg

david_tennant_small4.jpg

134 ms

126927-michelle-mcmanus-joins-the-hour-on-a-permanent-basis-410x230.jpg

126927-michelle-mcmanus-joins-the-hour-on-a-permanent-basis-410x230.jpg

134 ms

flag.gif

flag.gif

136 ms

ethnoancestry.GIF

ethnoancestry.GIF

135 ms

worldwidetop.gif

worldwidetop.gif

159 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

69 ms

all.js

all.js

65 ms

leftside3.gif

leftside3.gif

130 ms

topback3.gif

topback3.gif

131 ms

www.ancestry.com

www.ancestry.com

65 ms

all.js

all.js

6 ms

117 ms

www.scotsfamily.com

www.scotsfamily.com

21 ms

www.scotsfamily.com

www.scotsfamily.com

20 ms

www.scotsfamily.com

www.scotsfamily.com

20 ms

Accessibility Review

scotsfamily.com accessibility score

61

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

scotsfamily.com best practices score

42

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

scotsfamily.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scotsfamily.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Scotsfamily.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

scotsfamily.com

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