Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

voxscotland.org.uk

Vox Scotland | Scotland’s national voice on mental health.

Page Load Speed

10.1 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

206 ms

voxscotland.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit voxscotland.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Vox Scotland content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about voxscotland.org.uk

We represent your views to Scotland’s politicians and health professionals to ensure our laws and mental health services reflect your needs and interests.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Voxscotland.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 7.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

voxscotland.org.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,500 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.149

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

voxscotland.org.uk

2488 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

171 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

310 ms

style.css

285 ms

css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Voxscotland.org.uk, 35% (22 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 18% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Voxscotland.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 601.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Voxscotland.org.uk main page is 4.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 165.6 kB

  • Original 197.9 kB
  • After minification 195.1 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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 165.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 431.9 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Obviously, Vox Scotland needs image optimization as it can save up to 431.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 488 B

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 41.3 kB
  • After compression 40.8 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 30.1 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. Voxscotland.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (65%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vox 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 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

voxscotland.org.uk accessibility score

82

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

voxscotland.org.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

voxscotland.org.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Voxscotland.org.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 Voxscotland.org.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

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