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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

scotchwhisky.net

A to Z of Scotch Whisky Information - Scotch whisky .net

Page Load Speed

17 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

6.4 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Scotch Whisky content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scotchwhisky.net

Scotch Whisky information website including sections on single malt scotch whisky, distilleries of Scotland, retailers and suppliers to the industry

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotchwhisky.net page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 15.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scotchwhisky.net performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotchwhisky.net

1598 ms

swnet_2011.css

197 ms

swfobject_modified.js

516 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

271 ms

ga.js

430 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Scotchwhisky.net, 10% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Scotchwhisky.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 266.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

702.5 kB

After Optimization

436.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scotchwhisky.net main page is 702.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 357.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 43.4 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 39.1 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 12.6 kB, which is 24% 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 43.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 290.2 kB
  • After minification 281.3 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. Scotch Whisky images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 211.5 kB

  • Original 357.8 kB
  • After minification 346.3 kB
  • After compression 146.3 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 211.5 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 425 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. Scotchwhisky.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (55%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scotch Whisky. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scotchwhisky.net

scotchwhisky.net

1598 ms

swnet_2011.css

swnet_2011.css

197 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

516 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

271 ms

ga.js

ga.js

430 ms

left.jpg

left.jpg

1520 ms

logo_2011.jpg

logo_2011.jpg

1519 ms

header2016.jpg

header2016.jpg

3242 ms

book2016_sw.jpg

book2016_sw.jpg

2964 ms

get_flash_player.gif

get_flash_player.gif

2913 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

1136 ms

swr_banner.gif

swr_banner.gif

2917 ms

symbols_blend.gif

symbols_blend.gif

2802 ms

symbols_supply.gif

symbols_supply.gif

2804 ms

symbols_dist.gif

symbols_dist.gif

2803 ms

symbols_drink.gif

symbols_drink.gif

2803 ms

symbols_retail.gif

symbols_retail.gif

2830 ms

symbols_manu.gif

symbols_manu.gif

2833 ms

ANK_various.jpg

ANK_various.jpg

2833 ms

ebook_bg180.jpg

ebook_bg180.jpg

4301 ms

logojpeg.jpg

logojpeg.jpg

4302 ms

Gift_Shop_Various.jpg

Gift_Shop_Various.jpg

4301 ms

trans5.gif

trans5.gif

4300 ms

drop_shaddow_7.jpg

drop_shaddow_7.jpg

4606 ms

uk_s.gif

uk_s.gif

4634 ms

france_off.gif

france_off.gif

5677 ms

germany_off.gif

germany_off.gif

5677 ms

netherlands_off.gif

netherlands_off.gif

5676 ms

drop_shadow_b.jpg

drop_shadow_b.jpg

5676 ms

drop_shadow_brc.jpg

drop_shadow_brc.jpg

5677 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

1436 ms

ca-pub-9489341264961304.js

ca-pub-9489341264961304.js

3018 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

2894 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

1112 ms

drop_shadow_b20.jpg

drop_shadow_b20.jpg

1801 ms

twb120x60_6.jpg

twb120x60_6.jpg

3064 ms

twb-486x60.jpg

twb-486x60.jpg

2714 ms

ads

ads

1276 ms

osd.js

osd.js

708 ms

Accessibility Review

scotchwhisky.net accessibility score

74

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

scotchwhisky.net best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

scotchwhisky.net SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scotchwhisky.net 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 Scotchwhisky.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scotch Whisky. 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: