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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

scotss.org

SCOTSS | Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

340 ms

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About Website

Visit scotss.org now to see the best up-to-date SCOTSS content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about scotss.org

The Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland (SCOTSS), is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SC047951). Our members are professional trading standards managers represen...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotss.org page load time and found that the first response time was 201 ms and then it took 2.3 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

scotss.org performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.203

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotss.org

201 ms

scotss.org

920 ms

font-awesome.min.css

102 ms

normalize.css

205 ms

bootstrap.min.css

282 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Scotss.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Rawgit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (920 ms) belongs to the original domain Scotss.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

578.5 kB

After Optimization

545.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Scotss.org main page is 578.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 444.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 32.7 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 5.9 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 25.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 444.6 kB
  • After minification 436.9 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. SCOTSS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 101.2 kB
  • After minification 101.2 kB
  • After compression 101.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (55%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SCOTSS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scotss.org

scotss.org

201 ms

scotss.org

scotss.org

920 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

102 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

205 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

282 ms

main.css

main.css

278 ms

spinner.css

spinner.css

277 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

294 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

353 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

450 ms

google-map-api.js

google-map-api.js

451 ms

eModal.min.js

eModal.min.js

124 ms

main.js

main.js

451 ms

js

js

78 ms

scotss-logo.png

scotss-logo.png

111 ms

scotss-header.jpg

scotss-header.jpg

466 ms

adslogo.png

adslogo.png

102 ms

ctsi.jpg

ctsi.jpg

110 ms

trading-standards-scotland.png

trading-standards-scotland.png

113 ms

cma.png

cma.png

123 ms

scotss-logo.svg

scotss-logo.svg

189 ms

Gotham-Book.woff

Gotham-Book.woff

109 ms

Gotham-Black.woff

Gotham-Black.woff

102 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

201 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

121 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

23 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

Accessibility Review

scotss.org accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

Best Practices

scotss.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scotss.org SEO score

85

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scotss.org 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 Scotss.org 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

scotss.org

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