Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

scotland.org.uk

Scotland Travel, Holidays, Hotels, Self Catering Cottages, Tours, Guide

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

scotland.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Scotland content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scotland.org.uk

Discover the best of Scotland with our guide to hotels, cottages, tours and everything you need to enjoy a fabulous holiday or short break anywhere in Scotland

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotland.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Scotland.org.uk rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

scotland.org.uk performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,450 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.851

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotland.org.uk

180 ms

www.scotland.org.uk

292 ms

style.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

27 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Scotland.org.uk, 22% (31 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com and 19% (27 requests) were made to Cdn.scotland.org.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Who.helpmego.to.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.3 MB (73%)

Content Size

17.0 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Scotland.org.uk main page is 17.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 11.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 11.2 MB

  • Original 11.3 MB
  • After minification 11.3 MB
  • After compression 64.1 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 11.2 MB or 99% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. Scotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 474.7 kB

  • Original 779.3 kB
  • After minification 769.5 kB
  • After compression 304.6 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 474.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 622.6 kB

  • Original 710.5 kB
  • After minification 561.8 kB
  • After compression 87.9 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. Scotland.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 622.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (36%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

84

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scotland.org.uk accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

scotland.org.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scotland.org.uk SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Scotland.org.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 Scotland.org.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 description is not detected on the main page of Scotland. 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: