Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

pfascotland.co.uk

PFA Scotland - Supporting Footballers in Scotland

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

362 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

494 ms

pfascotland.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing PFA Scotland content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about pfascotland.co.uk

As the independent trade union for professional footballers, PFA Scotland is the collective voice for players in Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pfascotland.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 362 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pfascotland.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,960 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pfascotland.co.uk

362 ms

pfascotland.co.uk

624 ms

js

89 ms

style.min.css

12 ms

styles.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Pfascotland.co.uk, 4% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (624 ms) belongs to the original domain Pfascotland.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (14%)

Content Size

12.1 MB

After Optimization

10.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Pfascotland.co.uk main page is 12.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 149.5 kB

  • Original 180.0 kB
  • After minification 175.1 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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 149.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 11.5 MB
  • After minification 10.1 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. Obviously, PFA Scotland needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB 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

-25%

Potential reduce by 75.1 kB

  • Original 295.7 kB
  • After minification 276.1 kB
  • After compression 220.7 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 75.1 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 59.0 kB

  • Original 190.8 kB
  • After minification 190.3 kB
  • After compression 131.8 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. Pfascotland.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 59.0 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (59%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PFA 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 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pfascotland.co.uk accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

pfascotland.co.uk 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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

pfascotland.co.uk SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pfascotland.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 Pfascotland.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 PFA Scotland. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: