Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

hps.scot.nhs.uk

Health Protection Scotland website - Public Health Scotland

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

453 ms

Resources Loaded

854 ms

Page Rendered

83 ms

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About Website

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Health Protection Scotland website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hps.scot.nhs.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 453 ms and then it took 937 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Hps.scot.nhs.uk rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

hps.scot.nhs.uk performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hps.scot.nhs.uk

453 ms

hps.scot.nhs.uk

394 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hps.scot.nhs.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) belongs to the original domain Hps.scot.nhs.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67 B (35%)

Content Size

192 B

After Optimization

125 B

In fact, the total size of Hps.scot.nhs.uk main page is 192 B. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 192 B which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 67 B

  • Original 192 B
  • After minification 192 B
  • After compression 125 B

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 67 B or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

hps.scot.nhs.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hps.scot.nhs.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

SEO Factors

hps.scot.nhs.uk SEO score

89

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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hps.scot.nhs.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 Hps.scot.nhs.uk 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hps Scot. 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: