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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Explore your Scottish heritage | Scotland's People

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

380 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotlandspeople.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 2.8 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

scotlandspeople.gov.uk performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotlandspeople.gov.uk

95 ms

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

552 ms

google_tag.script.js

241 ms

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389 ms

css_fK34xkOh4PPJHu_NLhzuFt5vVv1mOKQEty7T6Sx80u4.css

419 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (977 ms) belongs to the original domain Scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scotlandspeople.gov.uk main page is 2.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 36.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 199.7 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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 S People images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 152.9 kB
  • After minification 152.5 kB
  • After compression 120.2 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 32.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 54.8 kB
  • After minification 54.7 kB
  • After compression 53.5 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. Scotlandspeople.gov.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (48%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scotland S People. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scotlandspeople.gov.uk

scotlandspeople.gov.uk

95 ms

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

552 ms

google_tag.script.js

google_tag.script.js

241 ms

css_GHmoqvlZlNAG1fyAyRx-6zYOrOy3Pol-sOAVz4JZm0I.css

css_GHmoqvlZlNAG1fyAyRx-6zYOrOy3Pol-sOAVz4JZm0I.css

389 ms

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css_fK34xkOh4PPJHu_NLhzuFt5vVv1mOKQEty7T6Sx80u4.css

419 ms

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655 ms

logo.png

logo.png

243 ms

articleScottishHandwritingResourceSidebar.JPG

articleScottishHandwritingResourceSidebar.JPG

305 ms

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20240104_134133%20480.jpg

544 ms

sp-centre-map.png

sp-centre-map.png

817 ms

scotland_records_logo.png

scotland_records_logo.png

384 ms

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933 ms

cookiesjsr.conf.js

cookiesjsr.conf.js

547 ms

cookiesjsr-preloader.min.js

cookiesjsr-preloader.min.js

36 ms

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751 ms

css

css

35 ms

SP_1921_Web_Banner_AW.jpg

SP_1921_Web_Banner_AW.jpg

307 ms

Coal%20Board%20Hero.jpg

Coal%20Board%20Hero.jpg

534 ms

store.jpg

store.jpg

532 ms

DiscoverScotland2.jpg

DiscoverScotland2.jpg

481 ms

ExtractRegisterofBirths-767x400.jpg

ExtractRegisterofBirths-767x400.jpg

230 ms

featuredBlockWelcome.jpg

featuredBlockWelcome.jpg

615 ms

ks-hero-option1.png

ks-hero-option1.png

977 ms

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23 ms

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42 ms

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53 ms

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icomoon.woff

440 ms

raleway-medium-webfont.woff

raleway-medium-webfont.woff

698 ms

raleway-light-webfont.woff

raleway-light-webfont.woff

507 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

59 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

39 ms

hotjar-298397.js

hotjar-298397.js

107 ms

bat.js

bat.js

106 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

57 ms

collect

collect

48 ms

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23 ms

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84 ms

Accessibility Review

scotlandspeople.gov.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

scotlandspeople.gov.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

scotlandspeople.gov.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Scotlandspeople.gov.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 Scotlandspeople.gov.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

scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scotland S People. 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: