Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

apply.bankofscotland.co.uk

Bank of Scotland | Savings, Loans, Credit Cards & Mortgages

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

apply.bankofscotland.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apply.bankofscotland.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apply.bankofscotland.co.uk performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bankofscotland.co.uk

238 ms

clientlibs-css.min.3a58602d47fcf7aeffc60fdca5f1d287.css

199 ms

clientlibs.min.37b70fb13d0a2057dc05474b9aeb7e53.css

76 ms

adrum-4.4.3.717.js

66 ms

jquery.min.e122e9399f7e45d1282df356d3ab371d.js

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Apply.bankofscotland.co.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Dpm.demdex.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (238 ms) relates to the external source Bankofscotland.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 581.5 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

615.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Apply.bankofscotland.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 508.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 161.6 kB

  • Original 182.3 kB
  • After minification 118.2 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 64.0 kB, which is 35% 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 161.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 217.3 kB

  • Original 508.5 kB
  • After minification 291.2 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. Obviously, Apply Bank Of Scotland needs image optimization as it can save up to 217.3 kB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 82.9 kB

  • Original 312.4 kB
  • After minification 312.2 kB
  • After compression 229.6 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 82.9 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 119.7 kB

  • Original 193.8 kB
  • After minification 193.6 kB
  • After compression 74.1 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. Apply.bankofscotland.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 119.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (48%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apply Bank 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apply.bankofscotland.co.uk accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

apply.bankofscotland.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

apply.bankofscotland.co.uk 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 Apply.bankofscotland.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 Apply.bankofscotland.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

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