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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

thecastlesofscotland.co.uk

The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry | Goblinshead

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

857 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

751 ms

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About Website

Visit thecastlesofscotland.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date The Castles Of Scotland content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thecastlesofscotland.co.uk

The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry and published by Goblinshead is a major new book on 4,100 castles, towers, stately home, historic houses and family lands owned by Scottish families and clan...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecastlesofscotland.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 857 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecastlesofscotland.co.uk performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk

857 ms

style.css

501 ms

theming.css

223 ms

web.css

504 ms

common,counter,twitter,shoppingbasket

511 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Thecastlesofscotland.co.uk, 37% (20 requests) were made to Cdn.website-start.de and 6% (3 requests) were made to Duckduckgo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecastlesofscotland.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecastlesofscotland.co.uk main page is 4.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 144.8 kB

  • Original 165.4 kB
  • After minification 162.5 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. 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 144.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. The Castles Of Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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 19.3 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 6.3 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. Thecastlesofscotland.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (32%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Castles Of 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk

www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk

857 ms

style.css

style.css

501 ms

theming.css

theming.css

223 ms

web.css

web.css

504 ms

common,counter,twitter,shoppingbasket

common,counter,twitter,shoppingbasket

511 ms

mobilenavigation.css

mobilenavigation.css

513 ms

logstate2-css.php

logstate2-css.php

508 ms

logstate-js.php

logstate-js.php

509 ms

web.js

web.js

957 ms

web.bundle.js

web.bundle.js

507 ms

mobilenavigation.js

mobilenavigation.js

615 ms

common,counter,twitter,shoppingbasket

common,counter,twitter,shoppingbasket

844 ms

864 ms

pfcsupport.js

pfcsupport.js

624 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

641 ms

emotionheader.JPG

emotionheader.JPG

593 ms

print.css

print.css

114 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

504 ms

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671 ms

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770 ms

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1357 ms

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1269 ms

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901 ms

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928 ms

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113 ms

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801 ms

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888 ms

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1089 ms

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1009 ms

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1012 ms

search.html

search.html

29 ms

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1037 ms

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1135 ms

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1135 ms

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1165 ms

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1211 ms

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1259 ms

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1253 ms

facebook_big.png

facebook_big.png

116 ms

basic.css

basic.css

147 ms

web.css

web.css

138 ms

order.js

order.js

115 ms

logo_icon60.v101.png

logo_icon60.v101.png

7 ms

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7 ms

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1257 ms

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1398 ms

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1380 ms

printer.gif

printer.gif

114 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

160 ms

socialNetworkBar.js

socialNetworkBar.js

115 ms

en_GB

en_GB

150 ms

Accessibility Review

thecastlesofscotland.co.uk accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

thecastlesofscotland.co.uk 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

thecastlesofscotland.co.uk SEO score

67

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Thecastlesofscotland.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 Thecastlesofscotland.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

thecastlesofscotland.co.uk

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