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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

jobs.scot.nhs.uk

NHSScotland Jobs | Job Train

Page Load Speed

19 sec in total

First Response

935 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

11.7 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jobs.scot.nhs.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 935 ms and then it took 18 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

jobs.scot.nhs.uk performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.163

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jobs.scot.nhs.uk

935 ms

jobs.scot.nhs.uk

963 ms

StyleSheet.css

272 ms

WebResource.axd

594 ms

ScriptResource.axd

800 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Jobs.scot.nhs.uk, 10% (2 requests) were made to Logger.scot.nhs.uk and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Logger.scot.nhs.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.2 kB (69%)

Content Size

466.7 kB

After Optimization

144.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Jobs.scot.nhs.uk main page is 466.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 365.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 44.8 kB

  • Original 52.8 kB
  • After minification 40.7 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 12.1 kB, which is 23% 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 44.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 35.4 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, Jobs Scot needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 265.4 kB

  • Original 365.1 kB
  • After minification 308.4 kB
  • After compression 99.7 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 265.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Jobs.scot.nhs.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (26%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jobs Scot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

jobs.scot.nhs.uk

jobs.scot.nhs.uk

935 ms

jobs.scot.nhs.uk

jobs.scot.nhs.uk

963 ms

StyleSheet.css

StyleSheet.css

272 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

594 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

800 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

785 ms

jquery-1.3.2.js

jquery-1.3.2.js

1818 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

3665 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1719 ms

bg.png

bg.png

1716 ms

siteLogo.png

siteLogo.png

1717 ms

ref_keySearch_title.png

ref_keySearch_title.png

1643 ms

search_icon2.png

search_icon2.png

1642 ms

advancedSearch_title.png

advancedSearch_title.png

2248 ms

header_new3.png

header_new3.png

1164 ms

mainbacktop_new3.png

mainbacktop_new3.png

1163 ms

ContentRepeat_new3.png

ContentRepeat_new3.png

1163 ms

CFS_logo.png

CFS_logo.png

1163 ms

footer_new3.png

footer_new3.png

1162 ms

collect

collect

148 ms

piwik.php

piwik.php

199 ms

Accessibility Review

jobs.scot.nhs.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

jobs.scot.nhs.uk best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

jobs.scot.nhs.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Jobs.scot.nhs.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 Jobs.scot.nhs.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

jobs.scot.nhs.uk

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