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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

st-marys-music-school.co.uk

St Mary’s Music School | Scotland’s Specialist Music School

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

431 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing St Mary S Music School content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about st-marys-music-school.co.uk

St Mary's Music School offers a world class standard of music and academic education to musically gifted children aged 9-19 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed St-marys-music-school.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

st-marys-music-school.co.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

st-marys-music-school.co.uk

43 ms

stmarysmusicschool.co.uk

198 ms

www.stmarysmusicschool.co.uk

387 ms

gtm.js

81 ms

hover.css

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original St-marys-music-school.co.uk, 72% (42 requests) were made to Stmarysmusicschool.co.uk and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Stmarysmusicschool.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 229.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of St-marys-music-school.co.uk main page is 4.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 49.0 kB

  • Original 59.7 kB
  • After minification 52.0 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 7.7 kB, which is 13% 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 49.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 115.8 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. St Mary S Music School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 45.9 kB

  • Original 274.8 kB
  • After minification 274.8 kB
  • After compression 228.9 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 45.9 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 43.6 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. St-marys-music-school.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.6 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (45%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St Mary S Music School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

st-marys-music-school.co.uk

st-marys-music-school.co.uk

43 ms

stmarysmusicschool.co.uk

stmarysmusicschool.co.uk

198 ms

www.stmarysmusicschool.co.uk

www.stmarysmusicschool.co.uk

387 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

81 ms

hover.css

hover.css

92 ms

skin.min.css

skin.min.css

186 ms

css

css

46 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

47 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

59 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

271 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

338 ms

owl.theme.default.css

owl.theme.default.css

342 ms

animate.css

animate.css

351 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

43 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

52 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

347 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

358 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

359 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

420 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

511 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

36 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

40 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

523 ms

jquery.color.js

jquery.color.js

433 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

58 ms

bundle.min.js

bundle.min.js

613 ms

player.js

player.js

46 ms

logo-stmarysmusicschool-white.png

logo-stmarysmusicschool-white.png

90 ms

tab-arrow.png

tab-arrow.png

150 ms

icon-search-white.png

icon-search-white.png

171 ms

icon-menu-white.png

icon-menu-white.png

241 ms

mute-button-stopped.png

mute-button-stopped.png

242 ms

play-pause-video-stopped.png

play-pause-video-stopped.png

242 ms

Website_front_page_legacy.jpg

Website_front_page_legacy.jpg

359 ms

Merrin_50_23.jpg

Merrin_50_23.jpg

359 ms

Christina_website.png

Christina_website.png

428 ms

stmarysrsno-14.jpg

stmarysrsno-14.jpg

1070 ms

AllSevenHills.jpg

AllSevenHills.jpg

585 ms

logo-stmarysmusicschool.png

logo-stmarysmusicschool.png

358 ms

icon-email-signup.png

icon-email-signup.png

416 ms

footer-SCIS_LOGO.jpg

footer-SCIS_LOGO.jpg

418 ms

footer-StMarysCathedra.png

footer-StMarysCathedra.png

430 ms

footer-oscr.jpg

footer-oscr.jpg

505 ms

footer-MDS_logo.png

footer-MDS_logo.png

506 ms

CSA-logo.jpg

CSA-logo.jpg

511 ms

footer-logo-leverhulme.png

footer-logo-leverhulme.png

515 ms

footer-people-3.png

footer-people-3.png

592 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

593 ms

icon-instagram.png

icon-instagram.png

594 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

598 ms

icon-vimeo.png

icon-vimeo.png

673 ms

LOGIN-ALUMNI.jpg

LOGIN-ALUMNI.jpg

677 ms

login-pps.png

login-pps.png

678 ms

ga.js

ga.js

18 ms

SlGVmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXkHNSaA.ttf

SlGVmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXkHNSaA.ttf

115 ms

tDbI2oqRg1oM3QBjjcaDkOr9rAA.ttf

tDbI2oqRg1oM3QBjjcaDkOr9rAA.ttf

116 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

100 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

50 ms

Accessibility Review

st-marys-music-school.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

st-marys-music-school.co.uk best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

st-marys-music-school.co.uk SEO score

75

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise St-marys-music-school.co.uk 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 St-marys-music-school.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

st-marys-music-school.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of St Mary S Music School. 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: