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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

siliconglen.scot

Silicon Glen, Scotland - Scottish culture and innovation

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

284 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

78 ms

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About Website

Visit siliconglen.scot now to see the best up-to-date Silicon Glen content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about siliconglen.scot

The first online guide to Scotland. Information on Scotland and Scottish life from traditions and history to modern life including politics, software and innovation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Siliconglen.scot page load time and found that the first response time was 284 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

siliconglen.scot performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.297

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

siliconglen.scot

284 ms

www.siliconglen.scot

587 ms

styles.css

173 ms

urchin.js

23 ms

widgets.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Siliconglen.scot, 24% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (587 ms) belongs to the original domain Siliconglen.scot.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

97.4 kB

After Optimization

77.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Siliconglen.scot main page is 97.4 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 71.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 6.3 kB, which is 25% 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 18.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Silicon Glen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 993 B

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 71.0 kB
  • After compression 70.0 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

-59%

Potential reduce by 357 B

  • Original 606 B
  • After minification 478 B
  • After compression 249 B

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. Siliconglen.scot needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 357 B or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (20%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Silicon Glen. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

siliconglen.scot

siliconglen.scot

284 ms

www.siliconglen.scot

www.siliconglen.scot

587 ms

styles.css

styles.css

173 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

23 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

22 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

142 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

30 ms

btn_in_20x15.png

btn_in_20x15.png

115 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

21 ms

saltire.gif

saltire.gif

113 ms

livemarks16.png

livemarks16.png

191 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

Logo_25wht.gif

205 ms

rated.gif

rated.gif

258 ms

settings

settings

102 ms

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

3 ms

embeds

embeds

31 ms

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

12 ms

Accessibility Review

siliconglen.scot accessibility score

86

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

siliconglen.scot 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

siliconglen.scot SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Siliconglen.scot 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 Siliconglen.scot 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

siliconglen.scot

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Silicon Glen. 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: