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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

handsupfortrad.scot

Hands Up for Trad – Scottish traditional music for all

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

369 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

346 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Hands Up For Trad content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about handsupfortrad.scot

Hands Up for Trad are the home of Scottish traditional music. Visit our website to learn about the Scots Trad Music Awards, BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award, Scottish Traditional Mu...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Handsupfortrad.scot page load time and found that the first response time was 369 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

handsupfortrad.scot performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.237

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

handsupfortrad.scot

369 ms

298 ms

1671 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

305 ms

72a2dff1_ai1ec_parsed_css.css

1108 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Handsupfortrad.scot, 68% (38 requests) were made to Projects.handsupfortrad.scot and 7% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Projects.handsupfortrad.scot.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 815.2 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Handsupfortrad.scot main page is 2.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 49.5 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 38.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 141.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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, Hands Up For Trad needs image optimization as it can save up to 141.3 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 222.6 kB

  • Original 427.4 kB
  • After minification 417.8 kB
  • After compression 204.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 222.6 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 412.5 kB

  • Original 622.5 kB
  • After minification 596.6 kB
  • After compression 210.1 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. Handsupfortrad.scot needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 412.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (59%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hands Up For Trad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

handsupfortrad.scot

handsupfortrad.scot

369 ms

298 ms

1671 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

305 ms

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1108 ms

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310 ms

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622 ms

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543 ms

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342 ms

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413 ms

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58 ms

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409 ms

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454 ms

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818 ms

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520 ms

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566 ms

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630 ms

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644 ms

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123 ms

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59 ms

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63 ms

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70 ms

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599 ms

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644 ms

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660 ms

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673 ms

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706 ms

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747 ms

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112 ms

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85 ms

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1286 ms

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1296 ms

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152 ms

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1304 ms

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300 ms

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532 ms

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666 ms

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116 ms

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99 ms

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232 ms

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95 ms

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230 ms

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1238 ms

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Accessibility Review

handsupfortrad.scot accessibility score

87

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

handsupfortrad.scot best practices score

83

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

handsupfortrad.scot SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Handsupfortrad.scot 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 Handsupfortrad.scot 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

handsupfortrad.scot

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hands Up For Trad. 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: