Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

scottishfloodforum.org

The Scottish Flood Forum - Supporting Flood Risk Communities

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

84 ms

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About Website

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

The Scottish Flood Forum is an independent organisation which supports individuals and communities at risk from flooding. The Scottish Flood Forum is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation No...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scottishfloodforum.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.5 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

scottishfloodforum.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scottishfloodforum.org

1181 ms

css

30 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

79 ms

style.min.css

160 ms

styles.css

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Scottishfloodforum.org, 18% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Scottishfloodforum.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Scottishfloodforum.org main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 617.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 83.5 kB

  • Original 102.9 kB
  • After minification 101.4 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 83.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 617.1 kB
  • After minification 579.8 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 Flood Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 374.0 kB
  • After minification 374.0 kB
  • After compression 341.3 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 162.5 kB
  • After minification 160.6 kB
  • After compression 136.2 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. Scottishfloodforum.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (76%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scottish Flood Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scottishfloodforum.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

scottishfloodforum.org best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

scottishfloodforum.org SEO score

93

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

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 Scottishfloodforum.org 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 Scottishfloodforum.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

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