Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

historic-scotland.gov.uk

Historic Environment Scotland | Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

378 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

345 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Historic Scotland content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about historic-scotland.gov.uk

Historic Environment Scotland is the lead public body established to investigate, care for and promote Scotland’s historic environment. Browse the website today, or contact us to learn more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Historic-scotland.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 378 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

historic-scotland.gov.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

historic-scotland.gov.uk

378 ms

www.historic-scotland.gov.uk

775 ms

base-home-style.css

439 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

html5.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Historic-scotland.gov.uk, 23% (34 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 8% (12 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (935 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 838.8 kB (37%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Historic-scotland.gov.uk 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 100.6 kB
  • After minification 95.8 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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 72.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Historic Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 488.0 kB

  • Original 790.5 kB
  • After minification 768.3 kB
  • After compression 302.6 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 488.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 233.4 kB

  • Original 281.6 kB
  • After minification 271.5 kB
  • After compression 48.2 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. Historic-scotland.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 233.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (42%)

Requests Now

143

After Optimization

83

The browser has sent 143 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Historic 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 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

historic-scotland.gov.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

historic-scotland.gov.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

historic-scotland.gov.uk SEO score

96

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Historic-scotland.gov.uk 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 Historic-scotland.gov.uk 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Historic Scotland. 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: