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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

scottcharters.com

Scott & Charters | Knitwear Specialists Since 1955

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

124 ms

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About Website

Visit scottcharters.com now to see the best up-to-date Scott Charters content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about scottcharters.com

A family run business for over three generations whose reputation has been built upon principles of service and quality. Quality Scottish cashmere, handcrafted in Hawick since 1955.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scottcharters.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scottcharters.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.544

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scottcharters.com

1028 ms

8228c42916e0decbee755776ec68818d.min.css

308 ms

styles-l.min.css

232 ms

316fd761eaa38354ac76aa45ff322c6a.min.js

761 ms

logo.png

305 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Scottcharters.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Scottcharters.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.1 kB (1%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scottcharters.com main page is 1.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 2.4 kB, which is 12% 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 15.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 160.4 kB
  • After minification 152.0 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. Scott Charters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 1.6 MB

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

-0%

Potential reduce by 9 B

  • Original 58.1 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 58.1 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. Scottcharters.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scott Charters. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

scottcharters.com

scottcharters.com

1028 ms

8228c42916e0decbee755776ec68818d.min.css

8228c42916e0decbee755776ec68818d.min.css

308 ms

styles-l.min.css

styles-l.min.css

232 ms

316fd761eaa38354ac76aa45ff322c6a.min.js

316fd761eaa38354ac76aa45ff322c6a.min.js

761 ms

logo.png

logo.png

305 ms

slide-03.jpg

slide-03.jpg

412 ms

scottzip.jpg

scottzip.jpg

414 ms

logo-small.png

logo-small.png

305 ms

FuturaStd-Medium.woff

FuturaStd-Medium.woff

91 ms

baskvl.woff

baskvl.woff

80 ms

opensans-400.woff

opensans-400.woff

83 ms

opensans-300.woff

opensans-300.woff

100 ms

opensans-600.woff

opensans-600.woff

105 ms

opensans-700.woff

opensans-700.woff

158 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

234 ms

Blank-Theme-Icons.woff

Blank-Theme-Icons.woff

169 ms

FuturaStd-Light.woff

FuturaStd-Light.woff

184 ms

copperplategothic-light.woff

copperplategothic-light.woff

191 ms

print.min.css

print.min.css

91 ms

js-translation.json

js-translation.json

80 ms

undefined

undefined

923 ms

loader-1.gif

loader-1.gif

77 ms

Accessibility Review

scottcharters.com accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

scottcharters.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

scottcharters.com SEO score

74

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Scottcharters.com 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 Scottcharters.com 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

scottcharters.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scott Charters. 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: