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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

scotiapipers.co.uk

Wedding Piper | Wedding DJs | Bagpiper Hire | Pipers Scotia Pipers

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

516 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

292 ms

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About Website

Visit scotiapipers.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Scotia Pipers content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about scotiapipers.co.uk

Scotia Pipers are the UK's leading network of bagpipers for hire, whether its a wedding piper, burns nights, parties or pipers for corporate events.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotiapipers.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 516 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scotiapipers.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotiapipers.co.uk

516 ms

www.scotiapipers.co.uk

740 ms

css_93f274d86d4baa2784eae563e1371228.css

344 ms

css_e7028918cc6c8cc73646a20360b1af84.css

216 ms

js_22820a098b7fdeae1f07572b6dd162cf.js

809 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Scotiapipers.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Scotiapipers.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

828.1 kB

After Optimization

676.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scotiapipers.co.uk main page is 828.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 633.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. 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 13.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 633.2 kB
  • After minification 629.4 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. Scotia Pipers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 107.3 kB

  • Original 140.9 kB
  • After minification 115.6 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 107.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. Scotiapipers.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scotia Pipers. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

scotiapipers.co.uk

scotiapipers.co.uk

516 ms

www.scotiapipers.co.uk

www.scotiapipers.co.uk

740 ms

css_93f274d86d4baa2784eae563e1371228.css

css_93f274d86d4baa2784eae563e1371228.css

344 ms

css_e7028918cc6c8cc73646a20360b1af84.css

css_e7028918cc6c8cc73646a20360b1af84.css

216 ms

js_22820a098b7fdeae1f07572b6dd162cf.js

js_22820a098b7fdeae1f07572b6dd162cf.js

809 ms

background-body.gif

background-body.gif

187 ms

background-top-layer.gif

background-top-layer.gif

280 ms

logo.png

logo.png

204 ms

text-scotia-pipers.gif

text-scotia-pipers.gif

200 ms

addressingthehaggis.jpg

addressingthehaggis.jpg

324 ms

lochlomondmain.jpg

lochlomondmain.jpg

475 ms

lorrainekelly.jpg

lorrainekelly.jpg

533 ms

pipeband.jpg

pipeband.jpg

604 ms

Jimmyshandmain_0.jpg

Jimmyshandmain_0.jpg

747 ms

royalyachtbrittania.jpg

royalyachtbrittania.jpg

628 ms

weddingcarcastle.jpg

weddingcarcastle.jpg

780 ms

weddingparty.jpg

weddingparty.jpg

995 ms

background-main-content.gif

background-main-content.gif

788 ms

uk_banner.png

uk_banner.png

911 ms

alba_banner.gif

alba_banner.gif

882 ms

greamebrown2.jpg

greamebrown2.jpg

917 ms

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2015-09-06%2014.06.58.jpg

952 ms

button-vows-2009.gif

button-vows-2009.gif

989 ms

button-vows-2007.gif

button-vows-2007.gif

1068 ms

button-vows.gif

button-vows.gif

1085 ms

background-footer.gif

background-footer.gif

1182 ms

icon-facebook-trans.png

icon-facebook-trans.png

1122 ms

css_5fd6a70a5a9152fa0116baa87d4be84c.css

css_5fd6a70a5a9152fa0116baa87d4be84c.css

90 ms

Accessibility Review

scotiapipers.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

scotiapipers.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

scotiapipers.co.uk SEO score

92

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 Scotiapipers.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 Scotiapipers.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

scotiapipers.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scotia Pipers. 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: