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welcometoscotland.com

Things to do in Scotland | Things to do | Days Out Scotland

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

311 ms

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About Website

Visit welcometoscotland.com now to see the best up-to-date Welcometo Scotland content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about welcometoscotland.com

Scotland has an amazing range of things to do and see including whisky distilleries, castles, lochs and golf courses. Explore the real Scotland here!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welcometoscotland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

welcometoscotland.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

welcometoscotland.com

202 ms

www.welcometoscotland.com

300 ms

spcjs.php

180 ms

home.css

159 ms

core.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (129 requests) were addressed to the original Welcometoscotland.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Welcometoscotland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 525.6 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

488.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Welcometoscotland.com main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 433.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 65.3 kB

  • Original 84.9 kB
  • After minification 79.7 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. 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 65.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 97.9 kB

  • Original 433.0 kB
  • After minification 335.1 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, Welcometo Scotland needs image optimization as it can save up to 97.9 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 198.6 kB

  • Original 303.4 kB
  • After minification 274.3 kB
  • After compression 104.8 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 198.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 163.8 kB

  • Original 192.5 kB
  • After minification 142.4 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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. Welcometoscotland.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (45%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

72

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welcometo 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 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

welcometoscotland.com 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 Welcometoscotland.com 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 Welcometoscotland.com 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

welcometoscotland.com

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