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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

simonscotland.org

Simon Community Scotland - Home - Support for people experiencing homelessness in Scotland

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

375 ms

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About Website

Welcome to simonscotland.org homepage info - get ready to check Simon Scotland best content right away, or after learning these important things about simonscotland.org

Simon Community Scotland provide safe places and support for people experiencing, or at risk of homelessness in Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simonscotland.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

simonscotland.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.324

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.simonscotland.org

1976 ms

js

64 ms

style.min.css

257 ms

styles.css

259 ms

tailwind.prod.css

417 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Simonscotland.org, 10% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Simonscotland.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 378.0 kB (43%)

Content Size

877.1 kB

After Optimization

499.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Simonscotland.org main page is 877.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 400.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 56.6 kB

  • Original 66.6 kB
  • After minification 54.4 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 12.2 kB, which is 18% 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 56.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 74 B

  • Original 400.3 kB
  • After minification 400.3 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. Simon Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 130.0 kB

  • Original 190.6 kB
  • After minification 188.2 kB
  • After compression 60.6 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 130.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 191.3 kB

  • Original 219.7 kB
  • After minification 192.4 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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. Simonscotland.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 191.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (68%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Simon Scotland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.simonscotland.org

www.simonscotland.org

1976 ms

js

js

64 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

257 ms

styles.css

styles.css

259 ms

tailwind.prod.css

tailwind.prod.css

417 ms

slick.css

slick.css

252 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

253 ms

jquery.jConveyorTicker.css

jquery.jConveyorTicker.css

259 ms

index.js

index.js

265 ms

index.js

index.js

265 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

smush-lazy-load.min.js

267 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

431 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

267 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

443 ms

jquery.jConveyorTicker.min.js

jquery.jConveyorTicker.min.js

354 ms

main.js

main.js

354 ms

player.js

player.js

45 ms

js

js

59 ms

css2

css2

30 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

61 ms

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79 ms

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80 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

135 ms

menu-arrow.png

menu-arrow.png

93 ms

search.svg

search.svg

91 ms

logo-footer.svg

logo-footer.svg

94 ms

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Edinburgh_076-700x395-c.jpg

171 ms

Connect_Hub_-_Staff_035-1920x948-c.jpg

Connect_Hub_-_Staff_035-1920x948-c.jpg

417 ms

Accessibility Review

simonscotland.org accessibility score

71

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

simonscotland.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

simonscotland.org SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Simonscotland.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 Simonscotland.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

simonscotland.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Simon Scotland. 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: