Gov.scot Site Title

The Scottish Government - gov.scot

Gov.scot Meta Description

The devolved government for Scotland has a range of responsibilities that include: the economy, education, health, justice, rural affairs, housing, environment, equal opportunities, consumer advocacy and advice, transport and taxation.

Gov.scot Test Results

gov.scot Mobile Usability: 62/100

Quick overview:
Use legible font sizes
The following text on your page renders in a way that may be difficult for some of your visitors to read. Use legible font sizes to provide a better user experience.
The following text fragments have a small font size. Increase the font size to make them more legible.
GO TO NEW SITE renders only 5 pixels tall (14 CSS pixels) .
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Size tap targets appropriately
Some of the links/buttons on your webpage may be too small for a user to easily tap on a touchscreen. Consider making these tap targets larger to provide a better user experience.
The following tap targets are close to other nearby tap targets and may need additional spacing around them.
The tap target <a href="/Contacts">Contacts</a> and 1 others are close to other tap targets .
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Configure the viewport
Your page does not have a viewport specified. This causes mobile devices to render your page as it would appear on a desktop browser, scaling it down to fit on a mobile screen. Configure a viewport to allow your page to render properly on all devices.
Configure a viewport for this page.

gov.scot Mobile Speed: 65/100

Quick overview:
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Your page has 1 blocking script resources and 4 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
http://www.gov.scot/SG/Scripts/vendorLibsCoreBundle.min.js
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
http://www.gov.scot/SG/Content/vendorLibsBundle.min.css
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Leverage browser caching
Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network.
Leverage browser caching for the following cacheable resources:
http://www.geoplugin.net/javascript.gp (expiration not specified)
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Optimize images
Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data.
Optimize the following images to reduce their size by 19.6KiB (42% reduction).
Compressing http://www.gov.scot/SG/img//09/corporate-header-17.jpg could save 16.8KiB (57% reduction).
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Reduce server response time
In our test, your server responded in 0.33 seconds. There are many factors that can slow down your server response time. Please read our recommendations to learn how you can monitor and measure where your server is spending the most time.
Enable compression
Compressing resources with gzip or deflate can reduce the number of bytes sent over the network.
Enable compression for the following resources to reduce their transfer size by 10.5KiB (64% reduction).
Compressing http://www.gov.scot/ could save 9.1KiB (64% reduction).
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