Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

scottish-enterprise.co.uk

Support and advice for businesses in Scotland - Scottish Enterprise

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

330 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scottish-enterprise.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 330 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

scottish-enterprise.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scottish-enterprise.co.uk

330 ms

www.scottish-enterprise.com

478 ms

ai.2.min.js

82 ms

gtm.js

113 ms

css2

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scottish-enterprise.co.uk, 72% (18 requests) were made to Scottish-enterprise.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (544 ms) relates to the external source Scottish-enterprise.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.4 kB (37%)

Content Size

469.3 kB

After Optimization

294.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Scottish-enterprise.co.uk main page is 469.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 249.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 139.8 kB

  • Original 161.8 kB
  • After minification 103.7 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 58.1 kB, which is 36% 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 139.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 249.0 kB
  • After minification 242.9 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. Scottish Enterprise images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 58.5 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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. Scottish-enterprise.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.5 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (13%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scottish Enterprise. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scottish-enterprise.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scottish-enterprise.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scottish-enterprise.co.uk SEO score

86

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scottish-enterprise.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 Scottish-enterprise.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 Scottish Enterprise. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: