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nhsinform.scot

Scottish health information you can trust | NHS inform

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

310 ms

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About Website

Visit nhsinform.scot now to see the best up-to-date NHS Inform content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nhsinform.scot

NHS inform is Scotland's national health information service helping the people in Scotland to make informed decisions about their own health and the health of the people they care for

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nhsinform.scot page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nhsinform.scot performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nhsinform.scot

332 ms

www.nhsinform.scot

502 ms

DependencyHandler.axd

16 ms

DependencyHandler.axd

121 ms

fonts-async.css

205 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Nhsinform.scot, 7% (4 requests) were made to Browsealoud.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (975 ms) belongs to the original domain Nhsinform.scot.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 813.4 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

837.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nhsinform.scot main page is 1.7 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 968.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 5.5 kB, which is 13% 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 31.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 353.7 kB

  • Original 968.4 kB
  • After minification 614.7 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, NHS Inform needs image optimization as it can save up to 353.7 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 187.3 kB

  • Original 313.8 kB
  • After minification 313.7 kB
  • After compression 126.5 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 187.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 240.6 kB

  • Original 327.0 kB
  • After minification 326.6 kB
  • After compression 86.4 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. Nhsinform.scot needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (53%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NHS Inform. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nhsinform.scot

nhsinform.scot

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502 ms

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229 ms

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SEO Factors

nhsinform.scot SEO score

0

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 Nhsinform.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 Nhsinform.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

nhsinform.scot

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