Report Summary

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visithighlands.com

Scottish Highlands Holidays & Things To Do | VisitScotland

Page Load Speed

13.8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

11.4 sec

Page Rendered

898 ms

About Website

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Discover the breathtaking Highlands of Scotland, including holiday ideas, accommodation, travel information & maps, local tips & great things to see & do.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visithighlands.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 12.3 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

visithighlands.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

visithighlands.com

1480 ms

www.visithighlands.com

785 ms

1395 ms

547 ms

mapbox.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 182 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Visithighlands.com, 67% (122 requests) were made to Visitscotland.com and 6% (11 requests) were made to B.tiles.mapbox.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Visitscotland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (51%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Visithighlands.com main page is 4.1 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. 75% 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 520.0 kB

  • Original 620.6 kB
  • After minification 497.5 kB
  • After compression 100.6 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 123.1 kB, which is 20% 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 520.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 94.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Visit Highlands images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 606.0 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 1.1 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 323.8 kB

  • Original 383.8 kB
  • After minification 383.8 kB
  • After compression 60.0 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. Visithighlands.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (36%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Highlands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Visithighlands.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 Visithighlands.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 Visit Highlands. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: