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sppa.gov.uk

Scottish Public Pensions Agency home page | SPPA

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

927 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

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Home page for the Scottish Public Pensions Agency which administers pension schemes for the NHS, Teachers, Police and Firefighters in Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sppa.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 927 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sppa.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sppa.gov.uk

927 ms

mootools.js

367 ms

light4.css

177 ms

javascript.gp

216 ms

cookieControl-4.1.min.js

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Sppa.gov.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Geoplugin.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (927 ms) belongs to the original domain Sppa.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 444.5 kB (50%)

Content Size

894.2 kB

After Optimization

449.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Sppa.gov.uk main page is 894.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 770.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 16.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 366.2 kB

  • Original 770.7 kB
  • After minification 404.4 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, SPPA needs image optimization as it can save up to 366.2 kB or 48% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 91.7 kB
  • After compression 37.4 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 54.3 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 10.1 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Sppa.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SPPA. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

sppa.gov.uk SEO score

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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 Sppa.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 Sppa.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

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