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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

medievalscotland.org

Medieval Scotland

Page Load Speed

20.6 sec in total

First Response

139 ms

Resources Loaded

20.3 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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About Website

Visit medievalscotland.org now to see the best up-to-date Medieval Scotland content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medievalscotland.org

Resources for Scottish medieval names, clothing, history, and literature, as well as a bibliography of books and articles about Scotland in the Middle Ages, including such topics as handfasting, kilts...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medievalscotland.org page load time and found that the first response time was 139 ms and then it took 20.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

medievalscotland.org performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medievalscotland.org

139 ms

msstandard.css

41 ms

drupalcon-london.png

67 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

10 ms

ir

20116 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Medievalscotland.org, 17% (1 request) were made to Sharonkrossa.com and 17% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Assoc-amazon.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.4 kB (65%)

Content Size

22.2 kB

After Optimization

7.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medievalscotland.org main page is 22.2 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 16.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 11.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 394 B

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 1.7 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, Medieval Scotland needs image optimization as it can save up to 394 B or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 858 B

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. Medievalscotland.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medieval Scotland. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

medievalscotland.org

medievalscotland.org

139 ms

msstandard.css

msstandard.css

41 ms

drupalcon-london.png

drupalcon-london.png

67 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

Logo_25wht.gif

10 ms

ir

ir

20116 ms

ir

ir

20117 ms

Accessibility Review

medievalscotland.org accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

medievalscotland.org best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

medievalscotland.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Medievalscotland.org 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 Medievalscotland.org main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

medievalscotland.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Medieval 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: