Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

international.visitscotland.com

VisitScotland - Scotland's National Tourist Organisation | VisitScotland

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

6.1 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed International.visitscotland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 221 ms and then it took 9.5 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

international.visitscotland.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,820 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

international.visitscotland.com

221 ms

www.visitscotland.com

223 ms

www.visitscotland.com

681 ms

gtm.js

140 ms

dbf333b5272a6eb35964.css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 301 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original International.visitscotland.com, 94% (283 requests) were made to 2f1a7f9478.visitscotland.net and 1% (4 requests) were made to Rtp-static.marketo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source 2f1a7f9478.visitscotland.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (75%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

329.6 kB

In fact, the total size of International.visitscotland.com main page is 1.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 825.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 445.5 kB

  • Original 488.7 kB
  • After minification 468.3 kB
  • After compression 43.2 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 445.5 kB or 91% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 543.0 kB

  • Original 825.7 kB
  • After minification 634.4 kB
  • After compression 282.7 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 543.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. International.visitscotland.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 237 (82%)

Requests Now

290

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 290 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Inter National Visit 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 153 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 86 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

international.visitscotland.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

international.visitscotland.com 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

international.visitscotland.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 International.visitscotland.com 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 International.visitscotland.com 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 Inter National Visit Scotland. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: