Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

welcome.scot

The Official Gateway to Scotland | Scotland.org

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Visit welcome.scot now to see the best up-to-date Welcome content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about welcome.scot

The official gateway to Scotland provides information on Scottish culture and living, working, studying, visiting, and doing business in Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welcome.scot page load time and found that the first response time was 165 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 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

welcome.scot performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welcome.scot

165 ms

www.scotland.org

536 ms

css2

38 ms

main.css

259 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Welcome.scot, 73% (16 requests) were made to Scotland.org and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (942 ms) relates to the external source Scotland.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Welcome.scot main page is 2.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 197.7 kB

  • Original 253.3 kB
  • After minification 219.7 kB
  • After compression 55.6 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 33.6 kB, which is 13% 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 197.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 124.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Welcome images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 44 B

  • Original 496.2 kB
  • After minification 496.2 kB
  • After compression 496.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 73 B

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 53.0 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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. Welcome.scot has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (33%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welcome. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

welcome.scot accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

welcome.scot best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

welcome.scot SEO score

93

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

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 Welcome.scot 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 Welcome.scot 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 data is detected on the main page of Welcome. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: