Report Summary

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scottscastles.com

Large Holiday Homes, Castles & Country Houses to Rent in the UK

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

245 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

787 ms

scottscastles.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scottscastles.com page load time and found that the first response time was 245 ms and then it took 3.8 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

scottscastles.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

scottscastles.com

245 ms

189 ms

www.scottscastles.com

495 ms

ScottsCastles.css

168 ms

buttons.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Scottscastles.com, 7% (7 requests) were made to Media.scottscastles.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Scottscastles.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 659.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Scottscastles.com main page is 2.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 125.8 kB

  • Original 150.2 kB
  • After minification 135.4 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. 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 125.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 78.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Scotts Castles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 187.5 kB

  • Original 350.4 kB
  • After minification 350.3 kB
  • After compression 162.9 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 187.5 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 267.3 kB

  • Original 303.9 kB
  • After minification 302.7 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. Scottscastles.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (30%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scotts Castles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

scottscastles.com SEO score

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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 Scottscastles.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 Scottscastles.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scotts Castles. 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: