This website is using a robots.txt file.

Your site lacks a sitemap file. Sitemaps can help robots index your content more thoroughly and quickly. Read more on Google's guidelines for implementing the sitemap protocol.

Your webpage has 17 'img' tags and 3 of them are missing the required 'alt' attribute.

Congratulations! Your page does not use HTML deprecated tags.

Congratulations! There are no severe JavaScript errors on your web page.

Your page do not use any HTML compression!
You should compress your HTML to reduce your page size and page loading times - this will help your site retain visitors and increase page views. If you were using compression, you could be compressing your HTML size by 70 % - from 22.18 Kb to 6.61 Kb which would further reduce your page loading time.

Your site loading time is around 6.568 seconds and is over the average loading speed which is 5 seconds.

Your page has more than 20 http requests, which can slow down page loading. You can try reducing http requests through various methods such as using text instead of images, using css sprites, using data URIs instead of images, or combining several external files together into one.

Your site is not using expires headers for your images. An expires tag can help speed up the serving of your webpages for users that regularly visit your site and see the same images. Learn more about how to add expires headers to your images.

Congratulations! Your URL doesn't have any redirects (which could potentially cause site indexation issues and site loading delays).

http://www.ardgowan.co.uk and http://ardgowan.co.uk/ resolve to the same URL.

Your website is not using https, a secure communication protocol. Even for sites that do not collect sensitive customer information, search engines suggest that switching to https is an increasingly good idea and may help improve rankings. Note: if your site relies primarily on adsense income, be aware that using https may be detrimental to ad earnings.

Congratulations! Your webpage does not include email addresses in plaintext.

Your website is not using media queries. You should consider using this technique in order to implement responsive design functionalities.

Your webpage doesn't take the advantages of HTML Microdata specifications in order to markup structured data. View Google's guide for getting started with microdata.

Your webpage does not use the noindex meta tag. This means that your webpage will be read and indexed by search engines.

Your page is using the canonical link tag. This tag specifies that the URL: http://www.ardgowan.co.uk is preferred to be used in search results. Please ensure that this specification is correct, as canonical tags are often hard-coded and may not always reflect the latest changes in a site's URL structure.

Your webpage does not use the nofollow meta tag. This means that search engines will crawl all links from your webpage.

Your robots.txt file does not use the disallow directive. This means that the whole website can be crawled by search engines.

Your DNS server is not using an SPF record. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) allows administrators to specify which hosts are allowed to send mail from a given domain by creating a specific SPF record or TXT record in the Domain Name System (DNS). You can find more information about SPF records here.