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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

sec.co.uk

Scottish Event Campus | SEC, Glasgow | Previously SECC | SEC

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

sec.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit sec.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date SEC content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sec.co.uk

Welcome to the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) featuring the SEC Centre – five interconnected exhibition and meeting spaces, SEC Armadillo and The OVO Hydro

Visit sec.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Sec.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sec.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.26

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sec.co.uk

98 ms

www.sec.co.uk

488 ms

hybrid_framework.css

13 ms

style.css

41 ms

nrb3qca.js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Sec.co.uk, 13% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (972 ms) relates to the external source Sec.production.carbonhouse.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 217.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sec.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 145.7 kB

  • Original 182.8 kB
  • After minification 162.8 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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 19.9 kB, which is 11% 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 145.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 70.4 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. SEC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 479 B

  • Original 280.6 kB
  • After minification 280.6 kB
  • After compression 280.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 452 B

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 75.9 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. Sec.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SEC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sec.co.uk

sec.co.uk

98 ms

www.sec.co.uk

www.sec.co.uk

488 ms

hybrid_framework.css

hybrid_framework.css

13 ms

style.css

style.css

41 ms

nrb3qca.js

nrb3qca.js

160 ms

layout.engine.min.js

layout.engine.min.js

57 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

57 ms

js

js

111 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

73 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

82 ms

element.js

element.js

91 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

142 ms

vendor.production.js

vendor.production.js

63 ms

component-vendor.production.js

component-vendor.production.js

62 ms

libs.production.js

libs.production.js

62 ms

site.production.js

site.production.js

62 ms

reciteme.js

reciteme.js

62 ms

print.css

print.css

3 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

300 ms

fc9c8abe-370b-437c-878c-c73d8128644d.json

fc9c8abe-370b-437c-878c-c73d8128644d.json

287 ms

close.png

close.png

286 ms

newsletter_example-6b9469f913-6b9469f913.png

newsletter_example-6b9469f913-6b9469f913.png

972 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

70 ms

prev.png

prev.png

61 ms

next.png

next.png

61 ms

bg_transparent_building.png

bg_transparent_building.png

111 ms

SEC_Text_Stacked-240x80-cac405d164.png

SEC_Text_Stacked-240x80-cac405d164.png

61 ms

SEC-Armadillo-Mono-240x150-a81dafd202.png

SEC-Armadillo-Mono-240x150-a81dafd202.png

68 ms

SEC-Centre-logo-MONO-240x150-3-82009c08b6.png

SEC-Centre-logo-MONO-240x150-3-82009c08b6.png

69 ms

OVO-Hydro-Logo-6f9d72b3ac-6f9d72b3ac.png

OVO-Hydro-Logo-6f9d72b3ac-6f9d72b3ac.png

69 ms

bg_transparent_pattern.png

bg_transparent_pattern.png

110 ms

bg_intro.jpg

bg_intro.jpg

113 ms

Frazi.er-Ewan-Mcvicar-510x475-5ce39237a6.png

Frazi.er-Ewan-Mcvicar-510x475-5ce39237a6.png

137 ms

lomond-404x400-fc6795bc7b.jpg

lomond-404x400-fc6795bc7b.jpg

111 ms

Muse-2-404x400-c289130244.jpg

Muse-2-404x400-c289130244.jpg

136 ms

Cityscape-view-from-University-of-Glasgow-Credit-University-of-Glasgow-404x400-fd064b598f.jpg

Cityscape-view-from-University-of-Glasgow-Credit-University-of-Glasgow-404x400-fd064b598f.jpg

112 ms

SEC_PD_510x475-40d7da4da5.png

SEC_PD_510x475-40d7da4da5.png

136 ms

Hanna-Makenzie-5bbbe684e2.jpg

Hanna-Makenzie-5bbbe684e2.jpg

112 ms

DSCF3613-JK-VC_510x475-95c4034fc6.jpg

DSCF3613-JK-VC_510x475-95c4034fc6.jpg

136 ms

IMG_510x475-1bb1a75066.jpg

IMG_510x475-1bb1a75066.jpg

136 ms

map_image.jpg

map_image.jpg

135 ms

map_image_tablet.jpg

map_image_tablet.jpg

137 ms

d

d

118 ms

d

d

180 ms

d

d

118 ms

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

51 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

101 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

117 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

119 ms

d

d

117 ms

d

d

195 ms

d

d

117 ms

p.gif

p.gif

180 ms

location

location

175 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

52 ms

Accessibility Review

sec.co.uk accessibility score

81

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

sec.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sec.co.uk SEO score

78

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Sec.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 Sec.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

sec.co.uk

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